"Ed Huntress" wrote in
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Now they can defend themselves with Toyotas and Hyundais -- if they
can get enough parts from Asia...

Also Fords, Dodges, and a whole slew of military vehicles - not to mention
the shipyards, munitions plants, and other non-union manufacturing
facilities.

Thanks to the NIMBY attitudes of the yankees and left-coasters there's the
majority of refineries and sufficient petroleum production to enable us to
be self-sufficient while letting the snow belt freeze over each winter.

FWIW, a high volume of yankees migrate south each winter and provide us
with quite a bit of their children's/grandchildren's inheritances...