If Gov. Scott Walker prevails, will Wisconsin look more like the South?

[Playinghardball]

Source:The Christian Science Monitor

The South's small-government, pro-business, boot-strap ideals are drawing jobs to states in the region. That economic model may hold appeal for Wisconsin's Scott Walker and other Northern GOP governors. But it also has a dark side.

If Gov. Scott Walker (R) has his way in the labor dispute that has rocked Wisconsin for two weeks, will his state in effect look a lot more like those in the South?

Their economies marked by weak unions, a business-friendly climate, a thin social safety net, and lower taxes, Southern states may be an inspiration to some Northern politicians looking to grow jobs and dig out of budgetary holes.

Read more at; http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0301/If-Gov.-Scott-Walker-prevails-will-Wisconsin-look-more-like-the-South

[Drale]

1. Worst case scenario

If Walker in, it could be the downfall of democracy.

[mochajava666]

9. I've lived over 40 years in Wisconsin,

and I can guarantee you that Confederate flags are very common flying from pickups in rural areas.

Also, in my kids' high school, the N Bomb was totally acceptable - teachers didn't even mention that it was inappropriate in the classroom, but not standing for the pledge would get you detention.

The racism in rural Wisconsin is what you would expect from the worst of the rural deep South. If it wasn't for Madison and some other university cities, Wisconsin would be no different from Arkansas.

[glinda]

2. Not only that but I think the plan is to surround the Great Lakes for polluters and resources.

[snacker]

3. Wississippi. :( n/t

[Skip_In_Boulder]

4. I think Somalia might be a better comparison.

[PBS Poll-435]

5. Nah. Wisconsin is going to have a huge acid-reflux attack in 2012.

Huge mistakes usually get fixed.

[TBF]

6. Except the southern states have budgetary holes as well. nt

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Stopped after the first sentence. No further reading necessary. -nt

[Myrina]

8. No, it'll look like a third world country.

Upper class and everyone else. Pollution, industrial waste, hopeless uneducated people scrambling for a few bucks.

Just the way the elites want the rest of the US to be.

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. South what?

Somalia?

[mmonk]

11. I haven't noticed jobs growing here lately.