He remembers a few years ago when a bunch of textile factories closed all at once.

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The country used to have factories to spin cotton into thread and there were even several textile factories producing clothes, but they've all shut their doors.

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Point number two, on trade, John is exactly right that you travel around South Carolina and you see the textile mills that John's father worked in closed, all over the region.

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