I live in Mobile, Alabama, and have done so for almost 35 years.  I received my chemistry degree at a local university, and there are many well educated individuals in this area.  The local high schools as well as trade schools have been preparing students for this venture as soon as there was a possibility that Airbus would come to Mobile.  There is also a specific aerospace curriculum for training individuals.

We have several automobile manufacturing plants here in Alabama.  We also have many chemical manufacturing plants in the Mobile area (I work for one of them).  All of us are well trained, so it really hurts when people think that there are only a lot of "bumpkins" here in Alabama.

We are proud of our area as well as our state and its industries and its people.  Sweet Home Alabama!

If memory serves, Boeing opened in South Carolina about the time they were having difficult negotiations with the union up North. Of course it was presented as a coincidence in timing...   

We see many American companies reshoring and foreign companies locating here to be in close proximity to the U.S. market.

Reshoring is a good strategic move for many companies due to rising offshore wages, counterfeit parts, IP risks, quality issues, risks along complicated supply chains, and carrying costs of large inventories. By reshoring and shortening supply chains, companies can greatly improve lead times, responsiveness to customers, quality, innovation and R&D.

As companies adopt a more comprehensive total cost analysis they are finding that rising offshore labor rates combined with other “hidden costs” of offshoring often counterbalance any remaining savings from cheap price or labor abroad. Some of these companies are sourcing in the U.S. because it makes good economic sense for them to do so.

The Reshoring Initiative Can Help.

The not-for-profit Reshoring Initiative’s free Total Cost of Ownership software helps corporations calculate the real P&L impact of reshoring or offshoring. In many cases, companies find that, although the production cost is lower offshore, the total cost is higher, making it a good economic decision to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. http://www.reshorenow.org/TCO_Estimator.cfm