>> Were workers in NC upset they took jobs from (relatively) overpaid workers in New England? My guess is they weren’t. <<
In the meantime the high-tech sector in the Carolina Piedmont region has boomed, as big Internet firms like Google have bought abandoned textile mills to use their giant structures, their huge electric service capacities and their water-fed cooling apparati for large “server farms.”
Moreover, both Carolinas are made even more attractive to big Yankee companies due to their large, semi-skilled labor forces — family-oriented, non-union people who no longer are working in sweatty, dirty textile jobs. The region is becoming a veritable high-tech heaven.
Therefore, I predict that when we finally get rid of the Øbamao-Reid clique and its European socialist policies, and when we inevitably come out of the current “Great Recession,” the death of the textile industry in the Carolinas will generally be acknowledged as a blessing in disguise.
A 10% unemployment heaven.