alt Hacker NewsBut that’s not how it was. I am from North Carolina, which at one point was the largest textile production region in the US and maybe the world. It emerged when progressives outlawed child labor and other practices in Boston and nyc so the mill owners moved to the south. It was off shoring across states.
I saw entire cities emptied out over my lifetime.
That whole region used to also be the furniture capital of the world specifically High Point North Carolina which is still a massive trade hub, but I was in furniture briefly and learned how basically from the 1950s till the 1980s the entire furnishings industry was exported to Asia due to rising costs of labor