Wal-Mart comes North: the continuation of the Civil War by other means.
American Prospect, The, April, 2007 by Meyerson, Harold
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WAL-MART, AS EVERYBODY KNOWS, BEGAN IN the backwaters of the rural South--though not everybody knows just how rural, how southern, how backwater. Wal-Mart's southernness, however, is precisely what sets the chain apart from the handful of other companies that once dominated the American economy: Standard Oil, U.S.
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Steel, General Motors, IBM. None imposed upon the nation values so parochial or living standards so threadbare as Wal-Mart's. Before Wal-Mart, no nationally dominant company had ever come from the nation's most backward region, let alone clung so stubbornly to that ...
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