At the same time that the white male is the one demographic that one can openly mock and not be called a racist, the South has long been the butt of jokes for its lack of growth, development, and sophistication.

However, the reality is that Southern states now have the fastest-growing economies and populations and are challenging liberal states like California on multiple developmental metrics.

For the first time in modern record-keeping, six Southern states, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas, are contributing more to national GDP than the entire Northeast, according to Bloomberg’s analysis of IRS data. Those six states’ combined share of national GDP reached 23.8 percent by 2022, edging past the Northeast’s 22.4 percent share.

The broader South, defined by the Census Bureau to include 16 states plus D.C., is also growing at a faster rate than the country as a whole.

Its GDP expanded at an average annual rate of 4.3 percent from 2020 to 2024, compared with 3.6 percent for the U.S. economy overall. The South’s share of national GDP climbed from 34 percent in 2019 to 35 percent in 2024, according to Visa’s regional economic analysis.

The shift has been driven by a historic transfer of wealth and people. Bloomberg’s data shows that a flood of transplants steered roughly $100 billion in new income to the Southeast in 2020 and 2021 alone, while the Northeast lost about $60 billion over the same period. The Southeast accounted for more than two-thirds of all U.S. job growth since early 2020.

Census Bureau estimates show the South’s population grew by 6 percent between 2020 and 2025, nearly double the national rate, and was the only region to add population across every age group tracked.

The region has also accounted for most of the nation’s fastest-growing counties every year since 2020.

Nine of the ten fastest-growing metro areas in the country were located in the South in each of the two most recent Census releases, with the sole exception both years being St. George, Utah.

A Brennan Center analysis projects that the South could gain nine congressional seats after the 2030 Census, its largest single-decade gain in history, driven overwhelmingly by Texas and Florida, with Georgia and North Carolina also gaining seats.

Those gains would come chiefly at the expense of California and New York, alongside smaller losses across several Midwestern and Northeastern states.

California has fallen behind on nearly every major indicator of governance under Gavin Newsom, while the South continues to improve. On education specifically, Alabama’s fourth graders now outrank California’s on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, with Alabama placing 33rd to 34th nationally in reading and math, while California ranked among the bottom four states in reading, ahead of only West Virginia, New Mexico, and Alaska.

California carries the largest budget deficit in the country, while Southern states dominate business-climate rankings. Florida ranks near the top of the Tax Foundation’s State Tax Competitiveness Index, while California ranks 48th out of 50.

Culturally, the region’s rise is visible even where it hasn’t overtaken the old centers of gravity. Georgia has built a substantial film and television production base over the past decade, anchored by studios like Trilith and Tyler Perry Studios.

Los Angeles still leads the nation with an 18.3 percent share of scripted film and TV production, more than Georgia’s 9.8 percent, according to 2024 FilmLA data.

However, LA’s share has fallen from 21.9 percent in 2022, while Georgia has made notable gains over the same period. Atlanta, with a fraction of LA’s size and none of its century of industry infrastructure, now captures more than half of LA’s output share.

Publishing and music tell a similar story of Southern concentration. Nashville has become a center of Christian and inspirational publishing, home to major houses including B&H Publishing Group, a Southern Baptist Convention imprint and one of the largest Christian publishers in the country, alongside Thomas Nelson and LifeWay. Music is a stronger case still.

Nashville’s music industry activity is as much as 30 times greater than the national average and more than 10 times greater than New York or Los Angeles, according to research from the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.

The city’s output extends well beyond country, though country remains its signature. Nashville alone accounts for 50 percent of all U.S. country music publishing revenue. Atlanta has built a separate music economy centered on hip-hop.

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While globalist politicians and open-borders activists continue peddling the fairy tale that mass migration from North Africa is a “humanitarian” success story, cold hard data from Switzerland just dropped a bombshell that exposes the ugly reality.

According to an internal document from the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), over 80 percent of North African asylum seekers (primarily from Maghreb countries: Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) were accused of at least one criminal offense during their asylum process or after a negative decision in 2024.

That’s more than six-and-a-half times the rate of asylum seekers from all other countries combined, where the figure sits at a still-concerning 12.3 percent.

Only about one-fifth of these Maghreb arrivals managed to avoid any criminal accusations while in the country. The vast majority of their asylum claims are rejected—around 99 percent—yet they continue flooding in, clogging the system, and preying on Swiss communities.

Swiss authorities and experts are finally admitting what everyday Europeans have known for years: young men from the Maghreb are massively overrepresented in theft, drug dealing, and other street crimes.

Cantons have sounded the alarm for years. In places like Aargau and Thurgau, vehicle break-ins and thefts have skyrocketed, with North African asylum seekers linked to the majority of solved cases. One Swiss police spokesman noted that some of these “intensive offenders” were caught three times in a single day.

Journalist and Maghreb expert Beat Stauffer tried to soft-pedal the numbers in a recent Swiss public broadcaster interview. He claimed most of these young men don’t arrive with criminal intent. Instead, they know their asylum chances are near zero, so they game the system—filing claims to buy time, hoping to work under the table, make contacts, or find a way to stay in Europe longer.

Strategies for this are openly shared by Maghreb influencers on social media. When legal options dry up, many turn to theft and other crimes. The goal, Stauffer admits: “stay in Europe as long as possible.”

Families back home treat crime as a business venture

Parents increasingly send underage sons because minors get better treatment and more chances to linger. Everyone is expected to send money home fast—or be branded a failure. When deported, many simply try again and again. They have “nothing to lose.”

Switzerland has tried half-measures: a so-called “24-hour asylum procedure” for North Africans introduced in 2024, plans for faster detention of offenders, pre-screening to block hopeless claims, and shorter timelines between rejection and removal. Yet the crime wave continues. Deportations remain difficult—many go underground or resist identification.

This isn’t uniquely Swiss. Across Europe, data repeatedly shows the same pattern: migrants from North Africa and certain Middle Eastern and African countries are dramatically overrepresented in violent crime, theft, sexual assaults, and gang activity. Native populations pay the price in eroded safety, strained welfare systems, and rising public anger that mainstream parties ignore until elections force their hand.

The Swiss numbers shred the preferred narrative. This isn’t “poverty” or “discrimination” driving the crime. These are overwhelmingly young males who know they have almost no legal path to stay, treat asylum as a loophole, and resort to crime when the free ride ends.

Soft policies and endless second chances only incentivize more of the same. While left-leaning media and politicians clutch pearls about “xenophobia,” ordinary citizens in Swiss towns and cities are dealing with the consequences: smashed car windows, stolen goods, and a justice system that struggles to remove people who never should have been allowed in.

Switzerland is waking up

The rest of Europe—like the United States—should take note before the problem becomes irreversible. The data doesn’t care about feelings. 80 percent is not a rounding error. It’s a crime against civilization.

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A CDC-linked researcher whose work was repeatedly invoked to shut down questions about vaccines and autism is expected to plead guilty in a massive federal grant-fraud case.

Poul Thorsen, a 65-year-old Danish researcher, is scheduled to appear in federal court in Atlanta on September 1 for a change-of-plea hearing, according to the official court calendar and reporting from Children’s Health Defense.

Poul Thorsen, a researcher whose work was used to reassure millions of parents that vaccines do not cause autism, is expected to plead guilty to fraud on Sept. 1.

Thorsen worked on major studies examining vaccines and autism that were cited by the CDC and became part of the… pic.twitter.com/dtYW048s8I

— Children’s Health Defense (@ChildrensHD) August 24, 2026

Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathan Kitchens confirmed that prosecutors were finalizing a plea agreement with Thorsen, although he declined to say which charges the disgraced researcher is expected to admit.

Thorsen currently faces two counts of wire fraud and nine counts of money laundering after Germany extradited him to the United States earlier this year.

The original 2011 indictment charged Thorsen with 13 counts of wire fraud and nine counts of money laundering.

According to the Justice Department, the CDC awarded more than $11 million to two Danish government agencies between 2000 and 2009 for research that included the relationship between vaccines and autism.

Thorsen, who previously worked as a visiting scientist at the CDC, became responsible for administering the taxpayer-funded research money in 2002.

Federal prosecutors accused Thorsen of stealing more than $1 million from the program by submitting fabricated invoices containing the forged signature of a CDC laboratory official.

Aarhus University allegedly transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars to accounts at the CDC Federal Credit Union that university officials believed belonged to the federal agency.

The accounts actually belonged to Thorsen.

Prosecutors allege that Thorsen used the stolen research money to purchase an Atlanta home, an Audi, a Honda, and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

So much for following “the science.”

Thorsen was indicted in April 2011 but remained outside the United States for nearly 14 years. German authorities finally arrested him in Passau in June 2025 pursuant to an INTERPOL Red Notice.

He was extradited to the United States in May and has remained in federal custody without bail.

HHS Inspector General Special Agent Kelly Blackmon called the alleged theft a “serious breach of law and profound betrayal of public trust.”

Thorsen was a co-author of two highly influential Danish studies that were widely cited by public-health authorities and vaccine advocates.

A 2002 study published in The New England Journal of Medicine concluded that there was “strong evidence against” the theory that the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine causes autism.

A second study, published in Pediatrics in 2003, concluded that its results did not support a connection between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism.

For years, parents who questioned the government’s vaccine narrative were mocked, smeared, censored, and told that the issue had been settled by trustworthy experts.

Now one of the researchers whose name appeared on that influential work is preparing to admit guilt in a scheme involving fabricated documents, forged signatures, and more than $1 million intended for CDC-supported research.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed the CDC to investigate a potential connection between vaccines and autism as autism diagnoses continued to skyrocket.

The Gateway Pundit also reported that the estimated prevalence among eight-year-old American children had reached one in 31.

Earlier this month, President Trump signed an executive order establishing new “Gold Standard” childhood-vaccine recommendations and directing officials to improve vaccine-safety monitoring, transparency, and research.

That transparency is long overdue.

Real science does not demand obedience. It welcomes questions, independent replication, open data, and accountability—especially when millions of American parents are being told to place their children’s health in the government’s hands.

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The WNBA Reportedly Says Two Former NBA Players Are Not Eligible to Play in the League – No Answer on Transgenders

Red State reports:

ESPN reported Monday that multiple league sources said Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White would not be eligible for the WNBA after both former NBA players publicly declared themselves women and announced plans to enter the draft.

The league’s collective bargaining agreement says that “only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA,” but provides no further definition of the term, and the league does not have a publicly available transgender-athlete eligibility policy. That ambiguity is exactly what Kanter Freedom and White have spent the last few weeks exploiting.

Kanter Freedom kicked things off earlier this month by announcing that he was officially declaring himself a WNBA prospect.

“After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines, I’m officially declaring myself a @WNBA prospect,” he wrote. “If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA.”

White quickly followed.

“I’m transgender. I’m a woman, so I’ll be declaring for the WNBA draft in 2027 as well,” White said.

ESPN also reported that sources said the league had made a determination on the eligibility of two individuals joining the league.

The WNBA has not announced any plans to prevent Enes Kanter Freedom from attending future games after he was ejected from Wintrust Arena in Chicago on Sunday, but multiple sources told ESPN that the former NBA player will not be eligible to play in the women’s league.

Sources around the league said Kanter Freedom and fellow former NBA player Royce White are not eligible to play in the WNBA after the pair declared themselves women and eligible for the draft.

Kantor was kicked out of the Fever-Chicago Sky game on Sunday after raising his arms and standing up near the court.  He was wearing a shirt that said, “WOMAN noun. adult human female.”

A Chicago player with tattoos all over, started shouting at Kantor during the game.  This led to his rejection.  “One source said Kanter Freedom had been making comments toward Cloud throughout the game, though a fan wearing a gold Caitlin Clark Fever shirt sitting near Kanter said he only cheered during the game.”

Kantor believes his stance on women is common sense:

“This shouldn’t even be like a right or left issue. This should just be common sense.”

Enes Kantor Freedom calls on parents to stand up for their children over biological males sharing girls’ locker rooms, showers and bathrooms, arguing more athletes need to publicly speak out… pic.twitter.com/Qkn4ODhXoM

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 23, 2026

Sophie Cunningham of the Fever shared basically the same thing, that only women play in women’s sports.

Lara Trump explained how the WNBA has botched this up.

.@LaraLeaTrump: “What Is a Woman?” Has Started a Firestorm in the WNBA!

“WHAT IS A WOMAN?”: Lara Trump just laid out the growing WNBA civil war:

“That question has started a firestorm for the WNBA… It all started with Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham declaring publicly… pic.twitter.com/DkGCCagqGq

— Mr Producer (@RichSementa) August 24, 2026

The WNBA received a once-in-a-lifetime gift with Caitlin Clark. The league has botched that up and, to date, has botched up the transgender issue as well.

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One of the most amazing things about the DSA is hearing them talk in their own words when they think only other members are listening.

A clip that has been making the rounds on social media shows several members engaging in what looks like a Zoom meeting when one of them begins to detail how they are going to take over the Democrat Party and ultimately the country.

He then mentions that it will be a violent process.

This is why Democrats and media liberals must be called out when they try to claim that these people just want healthcare. It’s a total lie.

Townhall reports:

The DSA Promises Its Revolution Will Be a Violent One

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) haven’t exactly been shy about their intentions for America should they ever gain majority power. They will destroy America’s founding documents, the Senate, the presidency and the Supreme Court. They want to undo our immigration laws, abolish our borders, end ICE, and put the kibosh on law enforcement.

Of course, they’re also aware that tens of millions of Americans own guns and that many of us will put up a resistance to the commie takeover of the U.S.A. That just means the DSA is promising the revolution will be bloody and violent, as they usually are.

“We have seen that the Democratic Party establishment that we have has to be ripped out,” said Michael Beyer, a DSA activist and streamer. “We can actually start to grab hold of the ship of state and steer it in our direction, but it’s going to be a, you know, violent process.”

Oliver Larkin, who is running for Congress in Florida’s 25th Congressional District, added, “Our country needs to change and this Democratic Party needs to change. I was more than glad to go on Hasan’s stream. This is we need, as Democrats, we need to go into these spaces.”

Watch the video below:

DSA members say they’re going take over our country with a violent revolution

“It’s going to be a violent process.”

Believe them when they tell you their plans. pic.twitter.com/IGVGB24YuE

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 23, 2026

These are the moments that betray who the DSA really is and what they really intend for the country.

Yet you will never see this on CNN or MSNOW, for obvious reasons.

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Another day in socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York City.

On Monday afternoon, an Uber Eats delivery driver stormed into Barstool Sports World Headquarters in Midtown Manhattan and launched a brutal attack on a security guard after a dispute over a food order.

Barstool founder Dave Portnoy posted the shocking security and cell-phone footage and did not hold back.

According to Portnoy, the delivery driver initially confronted Barstool employee Gia Mariano over her food order. When the company’s security guard, identified as Dan, stepped into the hallway and told the courier to leave, the man allegedly turned violent.

The footage appears to show the driver knocking Dan to the floor, dragging him through the hallway, and repeatedly striking him in the face.

Several Barstool employees then rushed into the hallway and wrestled the attacker away from the injured guard.

Portnoy wrote on X:

“We had a crazy scene today at Barstool World Hq. An Uber Eats driver got in a fight with Gia in the hallway over her order. Our security guard Dan went into the hall to tell the guy to leave and he attacked him. Beat him up pretty good.

“Gaz saved the day pulling him off. Thankfully it was Gaz and not Mintzy who arrived first. Then the rest of the troops rushed in followed by Cody and Travy for the Boys to help out.”

Portnoy then mocked Barstool personality Tom Scibelli, who was seen in a red shirt retreating into the office and closing the door while his coworkers battled the attacker.

“Now what we got to pay very close attention to in the security footage we pulled is how Tom Scibelli (in red) handled this explosive situation. Bravery like this can not go unnoticed. Totally secured and locked down the office.”

Portnoy said police arrested the individual and joked that Dan “may need a few stitches and a couple beers.”

He concluded with a savage shot at New York’s socialist mayor:

“All in all another day at the Stool. Shoutout Mandami’s NYC.”

WATCH:

We had a crazy scene today at Barstool World Hq. An uber eats driver got in a fight with Gia in the hallway over her order. Our security guard Dan went into the hall to tell the guy to leave and he attacked him. Beat him up pretty good. @stoolsalesguy saved the day… pic.twitter.com/P7XUpDR8Tg

— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) August 24, 2026

The NYPD said officers responded to Barstool’s Seventh Avenue headquarters at approximately 2 p.m. after a verbal dispute escalated. Police said a 31-year-old man punched a 45-year-old man multiple times in the face, according to the New York Post.

Authorities described the detained man as a “person of interest” and said the investigation remained ongoing. The security guard was treated at the scene. No formal charges had been publicly announced at the time of publication.

Uber confirmed that the courier had been removed from its platform.

“We are horrified by the conduct displayed. Violence is never tolerated,” an Uber spokesperson told the New York Post, adding that the company was prepared to cooperate with police.

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