So here's a pretty awesome map from American Enterprise ... The map compares the gross domestic product of each US states with the national GDPs of other nations. To put it in a global perspective ...

Even though this study only used percentage changes in GDP — not absolute dollar amounts — when calculating scores for each state ... economic dynamo of the American southeast has grown ...

Al Jazeera looks at the US economy, demographics, geography and other indicators ahead of the November 5 elections.

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