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Originally Posted by catswiththum
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One question;
Do Southern States create their own major manufacturing jobs, or do they just take them from someone else?
I can think of a few..........but not many.
Here, in Virginia, they seem to come and go with the exception of Stihl which has been here since 1983, ( I think.).
We lost the Ford plant when it went back to Michigan.
We also lost Federal-Mogul, Huntsman Chemicals and Siemens to Canada and Mexico.
All of those companies were based somewhere else.
We have the shipyards here, but most of that is owned by out of state companies as well (and dependent on federal spending);
BAE Systems, Northrup Grumman, Huntington-Ingalls..........