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[Roger Austin <raustin3 AT nc.rr.com>]

 Absolutely, the folks in New England took jobs from those of their 
friends in the English cotton mills. If there is unequal cost of labor, 
business will gravitate to those places.

David Minton wrote:
> Something to remember about "family and friends in the manufacturing area"
> that lost their jobs in North Carolina--it is just a long established trend.
> They got their jobs when labor became too expensive in the North East.
> Agricultural workers were willing to work for lower wages than Northerners
> in North Carolina, I guess to get out of the fields. The process will repeat
> itself when the latest recipients of those jobs want higher wages than those
> in an even less developed country.