Right. My point is that New England went through the same disruption in the textile industry 100 years before North Carolina did. The only difference was that New England lost their industry to North Carolina ... while North Carolina lost theirs to Mexico and Asia.
Further:
In the 1780s, American textile companies offered rewards to English mill workers to bring knowledge of textile mills to America. Samuel Slater was one of these Englishmen. Since it was illegal to export textile technology from Britain, Slater memorized the construction plans of a textile factory. Slater built the machinery for a textile mill from memory. His factory produced cotton of great quality. In the 1790s, Slater and his partners opened many other textile mills. He is considered the founder of the American textile industry because his bringing of English technology to the United States began the Industrial Revolution.