Projected employment impact in the eleven states of the Confederacy as a result of the Bush adminsitration's military base realignment list:

19405 net jobs gained.

Projected employment impact in the rest of the United States as a result of the Bush adminsitration's military base realignment list:

32089 net jobs lost.

Remind me again: Who won the Civil War?

(Based on U.S. government statistics available here (PDF); inspired by this article in The Christian Science Monitor.)

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UPDATE: Right-wing blogger Don Singleton, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, thinks this is just ducky, and slavers in anticipation of a new Civil War:

And if the Yankees keep giving us trouble, we will be ready for them.

I guess that's what they call "Southern charm."

Anyone want to explain to me why I shouldn't worry that this might really happen in the next couple of decades?