Whatever little manufacturing is left here, that isn’t on life support from .gov, must be having a teensie little uptick, but will probably be “unexpectedly” corrected later on.
There is a real manufacturing boom in all industries related to the oil/gas boom. It goes down to the steel industry for equipment, rail industry for transport, and at the far end the chemical industry for product.
Keep in mind that all of this is activity obama would love to stop.