Tennessee's unemployement rate hit 6.9% in July, the highest it has been since May, 1987. The unemployment rate was 6.5% in the previous month. Georgia's unemployement rate is up to 6.2%, the highest since March, 1993. Florida's unemployment rate is 6.1%, the highest since 1995. Mississippi's unemployment rate is is up to a whopping 7.9%. Then there's South Carolina's unemployment rate of 7%, up from 6.1% in June. North Carolina's unemployement rate is 6.6%, up from 4.7% a year ago. Alabama's doing the best of these Southern States with an unemployment rate of 5.1%, up from 4.7% in June. The only one of these Southern states less than the national unemployment rate.

The US unemployment rate is at a low 5.7%, up from 5.5% in May and June.

We have less than six months until someone new is in the President's seat. How bad can it get in six months?