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Originally Posted by the urban politician
^ Except that the South is selling its soul in the process.
As the South "rises" it becomes less the nation of Scarlett O'Hara and Kenny Rogers and more suburban everything-looks-like-everything-else blandness, both physically and culturally, which was essentially invented by the north.
The South just happened to be very adept at it because it already had a lot of unused land and relatively small cities to begin with, just a perfect fertile ground for that northern invention to thrive. So if the South's revenge is to become particularly adept at transforming rapidly into the soulless suburban blob that seems to be permeating the rest of the nation, then yes--your friend is right.
But I'm sure that is not quite the "rise of the South" that General Lee or his contemporaries would have envisioned.
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So you're saying that suburbanization and blandness is only occurring in Southern metros, and has now ceased in the oh so sophisticated North?
How much did suburban Chicagoland counties
grow over the last 10 years? And uh... where do you think many of those residents moved from??
And thanks for completely ignoring all of the growth that within the urban cores of our Southern cities
