• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      The Detroit Arsenal. https://tacom.army.mil/about/detroit-arsenal

      It was where they made a lot of the tanks, but it’s since been “consolidated” to be an r&d and testing center. Factory unionization gave Ohio and Kentucky a major headstart in the race to the bottom, and that extended past the auto sector to other related manufacturing centers as well.

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      Warren, just north of Detroit, part of metro Detroit. I don’t know if it is a real assembly line but it is a big factory.