Perhaps you’ve read this paper already?:http://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/2008/03%20March/0308_locations.pdf
Here are some more recent follow ups:
Is the US still the worlds leading economy?
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/cspan/myths/20130329_cspan_myths_slides_8.pdf
Have US companies off-shored their production to low wage countries?
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/cspan/myths/20130329_cspan_myths_slides_9.pdf
What are the facts about US companies moving off shore?
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/cspan/myths/20130329_cspan_myths_slides_10.pdf
Where is US Manufacturing?
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/cspan/myths/20130329_cspan_myths_slides_13.pdf
You’ll note that in the world’s greatest free trade zone state-level economic policies like regulation and taxation has caused manufacturing to move from high tax and regulation states to low tax and regulation states.
Isn’t free trade and American federalism grand?
In response I say just two things.
China, not America, is now the world’s biggest exporter.
And: America is now nearly 17 trillion in debt.