Growing up in Maryland, just south of the MasonDixonLine, I often let my wanderlust and imagination drift up the coast to a more perfect place of beautiful coastline, living history and a cultural patina that seemed a caste above my mid-Atlantic surroundings.
In contrast to the better-than-average performance of the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states, when examining the states where economic mobility is suffering, a new trend emerges: All nine of the states highlighted by Pew a underperforming against the national average fall south of the MasonDixonline.