Amsterdam and Alabama

Matthew Yglesias gives 2 cheers to the European economic model and then ends the debate with a cut at the American south:

one can look at the Mississippi-Alabama social model of non-union, low-wage work; low taxes; little regulations; poor public services; and minimal investments in health care, education, and basic infrastructure. These are not, needless to say, the great American success stories. Nor, I dare say, are the mandarins of American opinion journalism clamoring to leave their comfortable homes in the blue suburbs of Washington to move there.

With the South the fastest growing region in the country,success isn't losing electoral votes every census.One wonders whether Yglesias is aware that in the mini-European welfare state of Massachusetts:people are leaving,the only place losing net population.Or why is it that New York state is the number one place where people born in the Unites States leave?The American Prospect