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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 150012, member: 44"]Well said, Bev!</p><p><br /></p><p>Like Bev, I grew up in New England watching the industrial base moving away. In the 1950s the textiles were moving south. One cotton, linen, woolen mill after another were closing their doors up there. Finally in 1960 the sheet plastic plant my step-father was connected with ran into serious problems with the unions. It was a life and death decision for the company. The company had to either shut down or move. The Union would not budge an inch and all management from top, middle to the floor foremen were threathened with many needing around the clock police protection - including me. The company could not make enough to justify staying open. The powers to be searched the country for possible other locations. My sf and mother did some of these trips. Several towns/cities in Ga, AL, and MS became candidates because of their tax incentives, location - transportion hubs to railroads and rivers, and available work force. The company settled on Corinth, Mississippi. The state, county and city built the infrastructure of roads, railroad spurs, etc... and gave the company a good 20+years of tax breaks - offer that can't be refused. A huge industrial park/complex developed around that company. When I came south I was amassed to see the many old New England cotton, linen and woolen mill names in the states of NC, SC, GA, Al, MS! Back in the 50s I had thought they had just closed, no they had moved South!</p><p><br /></p><p>All through the 1960s and 70s this area of the country was flourishing. Even car manufacturers were building hugeeee plants. Today Mississippi has a Toyota, Nissan, and there is a GE plant doing Boeing 787 stuff not all that far south of us. When I'd go back to New England I was shocked at the depressed appearance. Friends and family members visiting from New England were equalled shocked but with the great prosperity down here. They would come thinking to see hardly a paved road, and a multitude of barefooted people in straw hats, bonnets, and bib overalls - Hee Haw clones. To be perfectly honest I don't know of a public dirt road in an over 200 mile radius. Of course they may be one that I don't know about.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then towards the late 1970s a few manufacturing and assembly plants started slowly creeping away to such places as Mexico and the far east. Some of this started with Carter's signing of the Trade Agreement Acts of 1979. This particularly opened free trade agreements with Mexico, Singapore, Australia and Canada. Within a short time several assembly plants packed up and headed for Mexico. A flood was started to the far east causing like Bev said "big profits are going over seas ... cheap goods." The cork was out of the bottle and no one has a good answer on how to put it back without serious ramifications.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 150012, member: 44"]Well said, Bev! Like Bev, I grew up in New England watching the industrial base moving away. In the 1950s the textiles were moving south. One cotton, linen, woolen mill after another were closing their doors up there. Finally in 1960 the sheet plastic plant my step-father was connected with ran into serious problems with the unions. It was a life and death decision for the company. The company had to either shut down or move. The Union would not budge an inch and all management from top, middle to the floor foremen were threathened with many needing around the clock police protection - including me. The company could not make enough to justify staying open. The powers to be searched the country for possible other locations. My sf and mother did some of these trips. Several towns/cities in Ga, AL, and MS became candidates because of their tax incentives, location - transportion hubs to railroads and rivers, and available work force. The company settled on Corinth, Mississippi. The state, county and city built the infrastructure of roads, railroad spurs, etc... and gave the company a good 20+years of tax breaks - offer that can't be refused. A huge industrial park/complex developed around that company. When I came south I was amassed to see the many old New England cotton, linen and woolen mill names in the states of NC, SC, GA, Al, MS! Back in the 50s I had thought they had just closed, no they had moved South! All through the 1960s and 70s this area of the country was flourishing. Even car manufacturers were building hugeeee plants. Today Mississippi has a Toyota, Nissan, and there is a GE plant doing Boeing 787 stuff not all that far south of us. When I'd go back to New England I was shocked at the depressed appearance. Friends and family members visiting from New England were equalled shocked but with the great prosperity down here. They would come thinking to see hardly a paved road, and a multitude of barefooted people in straw hats, bonnets, and bib overalls - Hee Haw clones. To be perfectly honest I don't know of a public dirt road in an over 200 mile radius. Of course they may be one that I don't know about. Then towards the late 1970s a few manufacturing and assembly plants started slowly creeping away to such places as Mexico and the far east. Some of this started with Carter's signing of the Trade Agreement Acts of 1979. This particularly opened free trade agreements with Mexico, Singapore, Australia and Canada. Within a short time several assembly plants packed up and headed for Mexico. A flood was started to the far east causing like Bev said "big profits are going over seas ... cheap goods." The cork was out of the bottle and no one has a good answer on how to put it back without serious ramifications. --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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