It won't matter. CA and the Blue Northeastern states already buy foreign cars. More red states buy UAW cars as it is. Try getting the Libs to buy UAW. They don't and they won't.
We shall see. The Japanese are between a rock and a hard place. In this downturn, they don’t have enough money to continue to sell cars below market in the US in order to gain market share and sell high in Japan to cover their US losses...Japan is in worse shape then us surprisingly. It may come to the point where they can not sell the transplant cars for enough money to warrant continuing operations. Also,with unemployment rising in Japan, Japanese citizens want manufacturing to come home. Japan is a full employment country...unemployment is dangerous to their society.
Already, the Mississippi transplant won’t open as planned-indefinitely postponed. The state can’t even get their money back the contract was so bad. There has been no announcement concerning Georgia or Tennessee (both have future transplants going in supposedly), but I’m hearing Georgia will not be buil and maybe not Tennessee. I certainly hope these states protected their taxpayers with contracts that enable then to recoup the taxpayer money spent to entice these guys unlike Mississippi.