Symbiosis

A missive which is just a review of a book review might be seen as lame. But there you are. Today's NYT, dead trees division has a review of "Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White", which tells, yet again, the tale of how wage slave states (and, in this case, an outright slave state) depend on access to wealthy states to dump their goods. Now it's China.

Hattiesburg became known as a hub for the railroads and the lumber industry; located in the thick of Mississippi's Piney Woods, about 70 miles north of the Gulf Coast, the town was a draw for new residents seeking their fortune. But William Hardy, the Confederate veteran who founded Hattiesburg and named it after his wife, couldn't realize his vision for an economic powerhouse without the help of Yankee money — an issue that would come up again and again in the so-called New South. "The former Confederacy," Sturkey writes, "was broke."
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The same continues today: how many cars and planes do BMW (not many) and Boeing (none) sell in the wage slave South?