Too many people in NC actually believe the textile industry is coming back. I'll bet many of the NC citizens who express opposition to CAFTA are ex-textile workers who have been sitting on their asses ever since they lost their job, while refusing to learn a new trade. They actually think someone OWES them a textile job. Never mind that 10 years ago many of them were being paid three times what their job was actually worth.
However, much of the steel industry, and other sectors (Boeing as an example) has either lost or is in jeapardy from unfair competition:....dumping, stolen technology, secret government support, etc.
No reasonable person wants zero technogical development or protectionism....just a fair fight.
The Russians and Chinese...and particularly the French... are masters of competeting on a tilted playing field.