Sure, just look at the booming economy in Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and all those other booming northern union towns. I don't know why we can't get auto makers to come to Mississippi and build new multi-million dollar factories. HMMMMMM!
With due respect, Wiley
Trying to avoid a union shop is only one of the reasons that plants are being built in Southern States, if at all.
Cheap labor, relatively cheap land, big tax breaks, absence of worker protection mechanisms, easier access to transportation, and lower energy costs are some of the others.
When places like Detroit, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh where in their heyday they were union manned, and the envy of the world. When the owners decided to spend their capital building more modern factories in foreign countries, and began letting their American plants become obsolete and ill-maintained, then no workers could possibly keep things going, no matter how hard they tried.