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The WSJ Real Time Economics blog has posted the letters for and against the health care reform bill winding through Congress. The most interesting thing about the lists of signatories is the geographical divide. It was so interesting, I did a fast tabulation (so, don't quote me on it), and what one finds is that of the list in favor, only 2 of 41 economists are affiliated with institutions in the South (defined using the most restrictive definition in this Wikipedia page -- so to be completely accurate, I haven't used the actual Mason-Dixon line). Of the 131 signatories to the against letter, 40 are affiliated with institutions in the South, i.e., essentially 30% of the total. A list of affiliations is below:

For:

• Brookings
• Harvard
• Brookings
• Brandeis
• Stanford
• Harvard
• Princeton
• Michigan
• Syracuse
• Brookings
• Princeton*
• MIT
• Boston
• Stanford
• USC (Southern California)
• MIT
• Michigan
• Urban Inst.
• Michigan
• Harvard
• CUNY
• Princeton
• Harvard
• UCLA
• UCSF
• Chicago
• Princeton
• George Mason
• Chicago
• Penn
• Princeton
• Harvard
• UC Berkeley
• Dartmouth College
• Michigan
• Harvard
• Chicago
• Emory
• UC Berkeley
• Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
• Harvard

Against:

• California State University, Northridge
• Columbia
• AEI
• Hillsdale
• AEI
• U. Mich, Flint
• Carnegie Mellon
• Memphis*
• Metropolitan State College, Denver
• Virginia
• Colorado
• Baylor
• Pacific Research Institute
• California State University, Northridge
• Robert Morris University
• Menlo College
• Western Kentucky
• Hudson Institute
• Univ. Wisconsin -Milwaukee
• South Florida
• Chapman
• Alabama
• Odessa College (TX)
• French, Wolf & Farr (Law Firm)
• American Action Forum
• Hillsdale
• Towson
• Baylor
• Denver
• California State University, Northridge
• Chapman
• Hillsdale
• Econforecaster (N.Carolina)
• Marquette*
• Colorado*
• Georgetown
• Barton College
• Georgia State
• California State University, Chico
• Northern Illinois
• Pacific Research Institute
• Michigan State
• Arizona
• Univ. Texas - San Antonio
• Trine University
• N. Carolina State
• New Mexico
• Montana*
• Texas
• Univ. South Florida
• Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation (Wash., DC)
• Missouri
• Mercer University
• Franciscan University of Steubenville
• Hillsdale University
• Bellevue University
• Michigan State University
• AEI
• Columbia
• U. Mass Boston*
• Houston
• Missouri University of Science and Tech
• UCLA
• Carnegie Mellon
• Emory
• Classicalprinciples.com (Mich.)
• Lipscomb (Tenn.)
• North Dakota State
• Brigham Young
• Clemson
• Idaho
• Univ. Texas - Arlington
• Wainwright and Co.
• Center for University Studies (Texas)
• Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy
• Colorado
• Missouri Southern State
• Wake Forest
• Ohio
• Temple
• Clemson
• Delaware
• Univ. Texas - Dallas
• California State University, Long Beach
• Institute for the Research on the Economics of Taxation
• George Mason
• Univ. Missouri - KC
• Kennesaw
• Alaska, Anchorage*
• Indiana Wesleyan
• N. Carolina State
• AEI
• Minnesota
• Chicago
• Metropolitan State College of Denver
• Clemson
• Chicago
• FRB Atlanta*
• Univ. Texas - Dallas
• Northern Illinois
• AEI
• Cornell
• Chapman
• California State University*
• Univ. Illinois - Chicago
• Duke
• Center for Health Policy
• Nevada
• Metropolitan State College, Denver
• Wayne State
• Robert Niehaus, Inc.
• Penn State
• Penn
• Louisiana State
• Cornell
• Duquesne
• Montgomery County Community College (PA)
• Texas A&M
• Colorado at Colorado Springs
• Univ. Texas - El Paso
• Central Michigan University
• University of Denver
• SUNY - Buffalo
• UC Irvine
• Toledo
• St. Cloud
• Printing Industries of America
• Ball State University
• Mississippi
• Iowa
• Univ. Missouri - St. Louis

Where * denotes emeritus or retired or former status. I used the postal address for the institutions such as consulting firms, journals or think tanks, to determine geographical location.

I've excluded Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware from the definition of the South; using the more expansive definition [0]raises the ratio to 45/131 = 34.4%.