] The United States of America is on the verge of losing
] its competitive advantage, economist Richard
] Florida wrote last fall in a Harvard Business Review
] article based on his new book, The Flight of the
] Creative Class: The New Global Competition for
] Talent. It is facing perhaps its greatest
] economic challenge since the dawn of the industrial
] revolution. Even more provocatively, he later
] declared that Terrorism is less a threat to the
] U.S. than the possibility that creative and talented
] people will stop wanting to live within its
] borders.

This is an interesting take on recent red-blue strife.