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I added "CPI average" as a region. CPI keeps pace with inflation until around 2007, but inflation and wages parted ways in 1990s, after "trickledown" was in effect.
I added a second chart that was zeroed to inflation. Yikes!
I added a third chart that is zeroed to CPI (without inflation, because that takes over). That South region just does not look good in any chart!
the use of interactive chart:)