The Footholls Corridor Book on Substack
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📘 Title:
The Foothills Corridor – Collapse, Reckoning, and the Fight to Rebuild
📝 SEO Summary:
This opening volume of The Foothills Corridor confronts the hard truth of how a once-thriving manufacturing region in western North Carolina was gutted by trade policy, corporate flight, and political neglect. It blends historical context, lived testimony, and hard data into a call for structural renewal—anchored in craftsmanship, resilience, and a refusal to be written off.
• The industrial rise of the Foothills Corridor
• The collapse of furniture, textile, and fiber-optic industries
• Impact of NAFTA and globalization on local economies
• Plant closures, job loss, and demographic decline
• Cultural hollowing and generational displacement
• Political and corporate betrayal of working-class communities
• Data on job losses, poverty rates, and economic fallout
• Lessons for rebuilding on new, resilient foundations
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