I hope not... but Michigan is a nasty place unless one has a solid middle income. It has few attractions, so people have to rely upon well-backed consumerism that only solid pay usually from union wages could support. Schools were good because union pay let industrial workers afford homes that could support property taxes to fund schools. Michigan got good roads early because workers earning union wages could afford cars rather than rely upon mass transit and because people with cars needed good roads. The biggest purveyor of music by and for African-Americans, Motown, started in Detroit because Michigan had the largest number of black people making solid pay at union jobs that ensured equal pay for equal work. Blue-collar workers could have hope that their children would never have to do the hard work in a factory or foundry and could use their union wages to send their kids to college to become teachers, preachers, and engineers. Well-motivated workers in unionized plants in Greater Detroit -- and even in small towns -- outproduced the slave labor in urban areas of similar size Nazi Germany and Thug Japan and created the material foundation of American victories in World War II.
Rick Snyder has betrayed that. Republicans, mostly Tea Party pols, have betrayed that. Americans for Prosperity (for only a few)? It has no loyalty to any but a small cadre of super-rich plutocrats, so it is doing what such people do on their own behalf.
Right-to-work laws make industrial work something to avoid at all costs. Employers get despotic power over their employees who usually decide to go elsewhere at the first opportunity. That is bad even for a work ethic. Union pay creates a strong work ethic that poverty can't. Poverty will cause people to vote with their feet, as they did from the Russian Empire... or Mississippi.
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