This year's March Madness reflects rise of Red State America

Last year, for the archetypal clip successful American history, the northeast surrendered its 250-year rubric arsenic the fiscal and concern superior of the United States. That rubric present belongs to the Southeast, America's caller economically ascendant region, arsenic measured by GDP.  That's successful ample portion owed to the monolithic maturation of Florida, Texas and North Carolina. (Texas is technically portion of the Southeast these days for reasons excessively analyzable to explicate here.)

Our caller website astatine Unleash Prosperity, called VoteWithYourFeet.com chronicles the monolithic migration implicit the past 25 years of businesses, radical and superior from the high-tax and dense regularisation zones of the northeast and the westbound coast, to the low-tax and light-regulation regions - the southbound and much precocious to the upland states similar booming Idaho and Utah. 

From 2020-23, the southeast gained a nett 2.5 cardinal much residents, portion the northeast mislaid successful net-migration from different states, astir exclusively radical leaving the northeast, California and Illinois.   

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This declining power of the bluish states is embarrassingly amplified by what is happening in assemblage sports. The South has won 17 of the past 20 nationalist championships with the Southeast Conference gaining astir of those titles. 

Now look astatine this year's "sweet sixteen" successful the NCAA hoops tournament.  Amazingly, 15 of the 16 teams that person inactive survived the archetypal 2 rounds of the tournament's archetypal play of madness are located successful states won by Donald J. Trump successful November. 

The declining power of bluish states is embarrassingly amplified by what is happening in assemblage sports. (Emilee Chinn/Getty Images)

The survivors see Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Auburn, Brigham Young, Duke, Florida, Houston, Kentucky, Michigan, Michigan State, Mississippi, Purdue, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Texas Tech.  The lone outlier was Maryland. Admittedly, Arizona, and Michigan are purple states but each the remainder are ruled by Republicans and person a agelong past of debased taxes.  

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It wasn't that agelong agone that the assemblage hoops champion trophy resided successful Westwood, California -- with John Wooden's UCLA Bruins stampeding implicit opponents in the 1960s and aboriginal 1970s mostly with home-grown Golden State talent.  Then, successful the mid-1980s, it was the rugged Big East with schools similar Syracuse, Georgetown, St. Johns and Villanova bulldozing done the NCAA tourney with kids from New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. In 1985 for the archetypal and lone clip ever -- 3 of the Final Four teams were from the aforesaid conference: the Big East.  Now these teams person sunk into mediocrity.  

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The 1 glaring objection is Connecticut, which won 2 consecutive nationalist championships, but adjacent this beast from the East failed to past the opening play of the tournament.

The outlook for a bluish authorities sports comeback anytime soon looks bleak.  According to Rivals, a apical recruiting database, 28 of this year’s apical 40 precocious schoolhouse hoops prospects were located successful reddish states, with Florida, Texas, Georgia and North Carolina producing the astir talented and talented athletes. 

The determination disparity successful shot precocious schoolhouse prima recruits is adjacent much pronounced.  Amazingly, 75 percent of the Top 40 precocious schoolhouse shot seniors are from reddish states.  

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Not lone are blue-state progressive policies chasing retired businesses, jobs and capital, but present they are driving distant young endowment and turning blue-state America into sports wastelands. 

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