In the Deep South, whites have redefined "progress" and "growth".
Whites flee the downtowns, move out into the suburbs and build new suburbs to accommodate more whites...malls, etc...
They turn the downtown over to the 3rd worlder types, who destroy it and make it a very dangerous place to be.
Then, thanks to the Civil Rights Laws, eventually a few Negroes start shopping at the white neighborhood malls, and soon enough a few of them rent apartments in those areas.
Soon enough, critical mass is reached...more and more Negroes come into the white enclaves, and at the malls & villages rapes, robberies, burglaries, crime of all sorts start to grow, especially as Negroes start to buy houses and fill up apartment areas.
So, then the whites move out into the country twenty or thirty miles away, build all new suburbs, schools, malls, houses, and apartments.
And then the same cycle repeats and repeats.
No longer does research and development, inventions and scientific discovery fuel the economic engine of "progress" and "growth".
Today, the sum total of "progress" and "growth" is defined as the financing of new neighborhoods, malls, churches, hospitals, and living places, and the consequent salaries and opportunities presented to those in the business of constructing them and governing them.
In other words, Whitey keeps on a' runnin' away from the darkies, and the cost of runnin' is called "economic upturn".
Sad way to run a civilization, if you ask me!