I’ve seen the plant. I know people inside the plant and others that visit regularly.
I agree that if the plant votes to go union, Nissan and others should do their best to avoid black-majority areas. All they would need to do is get a blue vs. red election map. Stay out of the blue areas and you should be fine.
There are a lot of tier 1 and tier 2 automotive plants that should make note of the red/blue maps too if they decide to go union.
>> All they would need to do is get a blue vs. red election map. Stay out of the blue areas and you should be fine <<
Yep, and you can bet that this kind of long-range thinking is already going on not only by auto manufacturers but also by the planning departments of other large manufacturing entities. The Upper South and the Mountain South will do OK, since the workers there are mainly independent-minded whites who aren’t likely to fall for the unions’ pie-in-the-sky promises. But if you live in the old cotton belt, the prospects for big new factories will probably not be good if Nissan gets UAW-ed at Canton.
(That is, unless maybe the cotton belt sees additional insane cases like Mississippi’s infamous Yalobusha beef plant, Terry McAuliffies car factory, the Kior fraud and the Kemper fiasco, where the state government has stupidly given multi-million-dollar subsidies to “green elephant” failures.)