New York Times‘ ed board strikes its traditional note of sympathy with the South:
In G.O.P. strongholds like Arizona — and Alabama, home to sleepy small towns where Latino-owned bodegas and laundries are among the only signs of economic life downtown — anti-immigrant policies are threating [sic] to strangle economic growth. If Republicans started believing their own rhetoric about small-business owners, they would see immigration not as a sea of troubles but as a deep well of capitalist energy, waiting to be fully tapped. [E.A.]
Unemployment rate in Alabama: 7.2 percent
Unemployment rate in New York: 8.6 percent