Right now, today, times have never been better for the Black middle class.

And that golden age is centered in the former Confederacy. Black families are moving to the South in big numbers, where they are finding good jobs and presumably enjoying their lives.

That dynamic -- the upshot of a new analysis of census data by Stateline -- has big implications for the future of American liberalism. 

As educated young Black people move south to take up jobs, they may be building a new political power base for Democrats -- the kind that elected Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia. But their departure is also weakening the Democrats in the Midwest and North.

Here are the two reports I mention in the podcast:
Migrating Professionals Grow Black Middle Class in the South and West | The Pew Charitable Trusts (pewtrusts.org)

How the American middle class has changed in the past five decades | Pew Research Center