Quote Originally Posted by 5049 View Post
Awesome watching MSU people celebrate economic development of other places at the expense of Mississippi. Similar to watching Raekwon Davis win the national title last night. Yay Alabama!!!
A lot of the southern states lobby for each other for new industry such as this. A rising tide raises all boats sort of thing. While MS may not have gotten the plant, we could possibly get suppliers and subcontractors. If nothing else it shows future potential factory builders that this region has the capability to operate such facilities and makes the area more atttactive. I know AL was helping us lobby for the Toyota plant in Blue Springs and we probably helped AL lobby for this plant. That said, if a MS site was bidding on the factory none of our officials would be going to bat for AL or vice versa, but once any sites in our state were removed from consideration, we then throw our support behind the southern areas still be considered. If your area doesn?t get the plant, you?d rather your neighbor get it than it go to PA or other distant place.