Over the next week, the President will travel to Detroit and Chicago where he will meet with auto workers and tour plants of each of the big three auto makers.

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Jackson, Mississippi and New York City hosted events earlier this year, and the festival will travel to Detroit, Boston, Washington DC and Pittsburgh through October, with Detroit up next on 21 and 22 July.

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If Congress and President Obama want to figure out how to restart our industrial economy, they need to travel not to Detroit but to an alternative universe that includes the South and Appalachia, where most of the new foreign-owned auto manufacturers have clustered.

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