Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

Although their population is now up again, its full of cheap undereducated labor..

Well hey. Dropping out of high school is a CHOICE. Perhaps if most Americans valued education more than they do--if they were more like people in, say, Germany and Japan, and encouraged kids to take learning seriously--we wouldn't have this problem with undereducated people who vote for unintelligent people like Trump. People who encourage their ignorance, because that wins them votes.

...and the full impact is being felt now as inequity is past that of the quilted age and the inflation is bringing us to the breaking point....

Did you perchance mean the "Gilded Age"? That would be the 1890s. In 1890, the inflation rate was -109%, for whatever that's worth.

https://www.officialdata.org/1865-dollars-in-1890?amount=50#:~:text=The%20inflation%20rate%20in%201890,year%20between%201890%20and%202024.