Reply #73: The Southern state carmakers will be hurt by this too...

[dixiegrrrrl]

please see this story before you jump all over "the South".

from McClatchy:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/congress/story/57657.html

"The supply base is so tightly woven that you can't separate them at all. Failure would have a devastating impact on all regions but particularly the Midwest and South. Because of the tightly knit web of suppliers, a failure of a GM or Ford would take the supply base down for a considerable time and create an economic tsunami."

Yet McConnell and members of Congress from Southern states that are home to foreign automakers emerged as some of the staunchest opponents of the Democratic- and White House-backed plan, which was approved Wednesday night by the House of Representatives on a vote of 237 to 170, but defeated in the Senate Thursday on a procedural vote, 52 to 35.

The South is home to a network of suppliers spread across such towns as Danville and Georgetown, Ky., and throughout Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia.
In central Kentucky alone there have been eight major layoffs at suppliers, at least one filed for bankruptcy, and groups that assist laid-off employees have helped nearly 550 workers. Kentucky has two Ford plants in Louisville, a Toyota factory in Georgetown and a GM plant in Bowling Green. The state trails only Michigan and Ohio in the number of autos produced.