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...than a few northerners feel the South - supposedly the last bastion of red, patriotic values - is being hypocritical by bending over backward for Germans and Japanese at the expense of U.S. companies. To make the point, a retired GM engineer this month set up a website called boycottalabamanow.com. But southerners ask who the hypocrites really are. "When the textile industry went down in the South and we were accused of being behind the times, we didn't ask for a bailout - we just had to reinvent ourselves," says John Jeter, a South Carolina author whose family owns a small chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit's Fall Gives Power to Rival Dixie | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...that southern sages like Black approve of an industrial civil war. "We're all in this recession together," says Black, who like many others is quick to note that Detroit's collapse isn't exactly good for the South, especially given the large number of auto parts production jobs that rely in part on the Big Three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit's Fall Gives Power to Rival Dixie | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...True, those Asian and European firms flocked to the South to avoid Detroit's high-cost culture. But while southern auto employees extol the union-free, right-to-work rules of their states, the truth is that they might still be earning the basement-level wages of a Mississippi textile worker today if the UAW hadn't leaned on the likes of Mercedes in Washington. "Mercedes wanted a much lower pay scale when it arrived here," says Cashman, who notes that veteran southern autoworkers now earn "only fractionally less" than the average $27 an hour for Detroit workers (and often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit's Fall Gives Power to Rival Dixie | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...same time, southern workers have taught the UAW an important lesson about helping to keep that industry viable. The foreign companies enjoy not only the South's lower legacy costs but a more flexible production culture. Unlike the Big Three, the southern car plants are far more agile when it comes to accommodating shifting market demand; and that's due largely to employees' willingness to exact fewer of the production rules UAW contracts are notorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit's Fall Gives Power to Rival Dixie | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...that efficiency is what Edward Miller, a Honda spokesman in Alabama, calls a modern "harmonious flow" - having nearby vendors supply parts, and workers assemble them, as they're needed rather than stockpiling too much inventory or flooding the market with, say, gas-guzzlers no one wants to buy anymore. "Southern communities understand you can't tie organizations down with restrictions," says manufacturing management expert David Miller of the Alabama Productivity Center. "Successful auto companies in the South provide all the positives you'd find in a union shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit's Fall Gives Power to Rival Dixie | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

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