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Open in a state that has a governor far more interested in pleasing his state's economy and the people who depend on it than pleasing Noem, Bondi, and Miller.

Bring the jobs that can be filled by US workers and the tax flow that goes with such an operation. States find out quickly which foreign investments are comfortable there, and which are not. I think South Korea probably has a good idea by now whether or not the business environment in a Republican-led (Ossoff and Warnock notwithstanding) state is welcoming or not. Or, if Hyundai stays, they do it because Ossoff and Warnock intervene publicly and prominently, and that Hyundai makes it clear who is responsible for the decision to stay.

I remember that during the first Trump administration, some idiot cop in Alabama arrested a visiting German at the huge Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama. Some alert officials got with the Alabama government VERY quickly, and got the visiting German manager released with an apology. I would have loved to have seen that Mercedes plant moved to someplace like Virginia due to one pissed off and very insulted German. That Alabama cop would have been directing traffic at a lonely intersection in a Birmingham suburb for the rest of his career.