With the exception of Northwestern University (NW) and Georgetown, that list of law schools comprise mostly of 2nd tier and below schools. Most people outside the southeastern part of the country do not think of Emory as a powerhouse law school in the same breath as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Penn, Michigan, Chicago, UC Berkeley’s Boalt, etc., or even NW. NW is a top 5 to 15 ranked law school depending on which ranking you are reviewing. Their LSAT scores are already one of the highest and so a 5 point drop is not significant. Top tier law schools, especially the top 10 or maybe even the next 5, are still very competitive to get into now just as it was a couple of decades ago.
But the question is do those states care because states in the Southeast are predominantly the states that are currently experiencing robust economic growth compared to states like NJ, NY, CA, etc.