Southern oligarchy and the labor unions
It's at the epicenter of a sad class divide between a desperate, poorly educated workforce and a demagogic oligarchy, and it has been a demarcation line stronger than the Mason-Dixon in separating the region from the rest of the nation. Full Story »
Posted by Gregory Kruse
But union membership has been declining everywhere in the U.S. - which would seem to indicate that other areas of the country are catching the southern disease. And the income disparity between workers and executives is constantly widening, stimulus package notwithstanding.