SC’s growth story is becoming the South’s growth story

By: Howard Franklin

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: September 30, 2026

Words: 785

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 4 days ago

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As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the country’s economic center of gravity continues to move south.

My new report, Accelerating South, captures the scale of that shift: the American South is now a roughly $6 trillion regional economy, outpacing both the Northeast and the Pacific while attracting people, capital and industries at a historic pace.

Few states illustrate that momentum more clearly than South Carolina.

Over the past three years, South Carolina …

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