The U.S. economy has come a long way since the days of the Civil War and with that
a change in the location of what is left of our industry economy. Many companies keep large factories in the South instead of the North nowadays for a variety of reasons. The South has better access to the sea and airports, it is not as densely populated as the North and there is plenty of physical space. As the U.S. keeps moving away from the use of factories in the United States by placing factories outside the country, it will be interesting to see what happens in the next ten years to all the industry and factories that are located in the Southern region of the U.S.