Interesting Fact

[Jackie S]

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/02/...-for-auto.html

Who would have thought?

[EXTXOILMAN]

Didn't some of the foreign car makers move their plants there to get away from the unions and be more competitive?? Can you say "cause and effect"...

[CJ7]

a year or so ago,I watched a doc that showed a convertible going through the entire process ... custom order/build/export. Very interesting, not a detali was missed.

I dont remember exactly where the car was shipped to, but it wasnt Mississippi

[Chica Chaser]

When the business climate is friendly for a company, of course they are going to move production there.

SC has over 250 automotive related manufacturing plants including

BMW, automobiles
Daimler, Freightliner Trucks
American LaFrance, Emergency Vehicles
General Dynamics Land Systems, military vehicles
Streit Group, armored cars
And a large Michelin tire plant
http://www.scautoindustry.com/about/...ring-companies

Alabama and Mississippi are very similar

[Seedy]

All the right to work states, are doing better than the rest of the country. Unions are driving companies away. Unions usefull days are long since past.

[joe bloe]

If the Demonrats get Card Check passed, they'll ruin the auto business in South Carolina just like they did in Michigan. We need a national right to work law.

http://www.nrtwc.org/facts-issues/ca...ed-unionism-2/

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by joe bloe

We need a national right to work law.

We do.

It's your right to work in any state in which you can find a job.

[Texas Contrarian]

That is an interesting fact, as the thread title indicates.

Here's another one:

Mark Perry's Carpe Diem blog is generally excellent!

(OK, OK, I know. That's an opinion!)