The idea that manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas or across borders to other countries is a frequent explanation from both Republicans and Democrats about why the American middle class has been hollowed out. 

But it's a convenient half-truth. The other side we don't talk about is the other kind of offshoring, from the shores of the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.  

Grant talks to Middlebury College Associate Professor Gary Winslett, whose new article for the Washington Post is all about this other offshoring and why we should be talking more about it. Their conversation is a deep dive into why manufacturing left the Midwest for the South, how the new talk of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance mindset fits into all this, and whether the leaders of both parties are just too old to see a way forward. 

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Manufacturing is thriving in the South. Here's why neither party can admit it. 

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