These revitalized cities have benefited from the system of afflictions that places like New York and San Francisco impose on their young. I would return to New York and market these truths to skeptical friends whose experience of the South typically never extended passed Arlington, Va. A few years ago, Time Inc. set up a campus there. How will these new abortion laws affect the redistribution of talent to places whose economies prosper from that talent? Under the current conditions, I wondered if women like Tess and her friends, many of whom moved from New York or Los Angeles, would have chosen to relocate to the Deep South.

Source: New York Times May 16, 2019 20:04 UTC