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Article: The past delays the future; Race and prosperity.(Past v future in South Carolina)(efforts to have a South Carolina county declare holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. lead to boycott)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 17, 2003
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Will quarrels over history stop people investing in South Carolina?
A LOT of tyres roll out of Michelin's huge factory in Greenville. Lockheed Martin and General Electric are also busily at work in this South Carolina county; so are numerous textile companies and a growing number of firms based in Europe and Japan, not to mention 500 locally owned small businesses. Greenville county has long been South Carolina's chief centre of industrial growth. So the protest march the Rev Jesse Jackson has planned for May 17th, and an economic boycott of the county that began in late April, are a worry to many people.
Why is Mr Jackson, who was raised in Greenville, ...