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It's not accidental that foreign car companies chose the rural South, where they could hire whites without compunction, anymore than it's accidental that the opposition to federal money for the Big 3 is coming from Southern Republicans, whose base is the modern versions of the White People's Councils of Jim Crow. The Big 3's plants are for the most part mixed race or largely African American, with blacks as a whole the most militant and pro-union. That's why those companies shut many northern urban plants in the 1980s and why GM chose rural TN for Saturn.
