Sectors that have not been automated – yet. The economies of the coastal states, on the other hand, have done better as they are based on the service sectors, finance and technology. When these sectors were automated, the result was rampant unemployment and economic decline in many towns. His message is simple: Much of Middle America is now worse off than the Coastal States because the regional economies there depended heavily on agriculture and manufacturing. In his book, The War On Normal People, Andrew Yang, who has travelled all over the U.S., forces readers to take a long, hard look at the communities in these “flyover states” and makes the strong case that the economic decline in some of these regions is due to them being the first victims of automation’s Long March through agriculture, manufacturing, (in the not too distant future) much of the service sector, and sooner or later: Everything. It has become customary, in some circles, to dismiss vast swathes of Middle America as “The Flyover States.” A region not worth paying much attention to a region best ignored a region one should drive through, or fly over, as rapidly as possible.
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