re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth

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GE rules out relocation to Dallas because of Texas politicians’ views, report says
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This kind of consideration in general has been an under-the-radar issue in Texas business circles for some time. There are companies who just do not like the aggressively conservative politics and cultural environment of Texas. The big cities and their ‘burbs are not as isolated from red-meat yokels as they like to pretend.
If you are CEO of, say, a major bio-science company, do you really want to move your firm and its employees to a county where young-earth creationists are respected, mainstream figures and where they run the school board? The Perry-sites are aware of this and dismissively respond that cheap labor and lax regulation will attract plenty of business and they don’t need these liberal infiltrators. They don’t seem to think about the effect this will have on the business environment over years and decades.