Textile and Furniture industries were not Union, but were some of the first to go when outsourcing started.
Funny thing the price of furniture has not really gone down either. But the US Taxpayer got left holding the bag for thousands of "displaced" workers. The word "displaced" means welfare EBT and new socialists.
textiles and furniture are two different animals.
furniture was done in by air quality rules that required finishes that were not acceptable to the buying public
textile manufacturing was just not competitive. recall if you will it happened twice before. textile manufacturing moved to New England and then later down south in attempt to be competitive