“It’s a mystery why the the plant wasn’t profitable and subsequently shuttered.”
Indeed. About 20 years later, I went by the paper mill in Arizona and it was out of business as well and the plant closed down.
The Union papermill in Counce, Tennessee, is also infected with this idiocy. Many of the employees are ignorant of economics and politics and vote Democrat no matter what. I almost got into a fight with one of their “leaders” while in a gun store he was complaining about gun buying restrictions and I confronted him saying it was his politics that supported the laws...he wanted to fight because the truth stabbed him in the heart.