Also to seats of power in DC and New York which essentially funnel the productivity off the rest of the nation. In addition to the north leveraging a war against the south that's been maintained through anti white Jim Crowe for at least 250+ years. It wasn't until recently that the North has had to start "integrating" but they've pushed that ideology on the south at military gunpoint for quite a long time and its affects are apparent. The North will now reap what they sow.