[bert]

North Carolina’s textile industry came from Massachusetts because it was easier and cheaper to exist in the South than unionized Yankee land.

So, North Carolina lost the business for precisely the same reason as it got it in the first place

[Yashcheritsiy]

And that’s why a combination of tariffs and CGT cuts can bring it back.

Point remains - it didn’t disappear because of “robots.”

[Oatka]

North Carolina’s textile industry came from Massachusetts because it was easier and cheaper to exist in the South than unionized Yankee land.
So, North Carolina lost the business for precisely the same reason as it got it in the first place.

Indeed, but the money earned at those jobs was, for the most part, spent in America, not oveseas. Also the technical skills to maintain machinery stayed here as well.