This article is suppose to be about education but if you read deeper, it paints an interesting future of many of the so called "Red States"
http://www.nytimes.com/...
here are some interesting exerts:
ATLANTA — The South has become the first region in the country where more than half of public school students are poor and more than half are members of minorities, according to a new report.
The shift was fueled not by white flight from public schools, which spiked during desegregation but has not had much effect on school demographics since the early 1980s. Rather, an influx of Latinos and other ethnic groups, the return of blacks to the South and higher birth rates among black and Latino families have contributed to the change.
"This is the beginning of a very clear trend that has enormous implications," said Michael A. Rebell, the executive director of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University. "When we realize that the majority of graduates of our schools in the long run are going to come from backgrounds with educational deprivation, it makes it imperative that schools be improved."
Traditionally, the south is not known for its schools or its infra structure.
In order to keep its taxes low, it has a history of poor schools and poorly paid teachers. But thats not my focus:
I would like to jump the discussion to a future date:
Whats going to happen 10-15 years from now when these children become young adults- voting age adults: Will they vote, how will they vote? What will their prospective be. Will they carry on the tradition of Southern Conservatism or will they chose a different direction? The future is going to be very interesting: