Well, there are plenty of “wide-open” spaces in the Red Counties for businesses to expand or relocate.
They don’t need cities, they just need on-ramps and exits near interstate highways, and/or rail freight access.
The cities already have too much traffic congestion for efficient industrial transportation.
Oh yeah....and Ska-rew the unions.
As someone rightly posted most of the residents in these so-called economic zones are welfare dependents