Similarly, Hyundai building $8bn battery plant outside Savannah, Georgia:
https://apnews.com/article/hyundai-georgia-electric-vehicle-...
https://apnews.com/article/hyundai-georgia-electric-vehicle-...
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/commit...
Not to mention spending a lot on lobbying against clean air regulations aroun the world https://thedriven.io/2023/05/11/toyota-under-fire-for-anti-c...
https://www.forbes.com/wheels/news/kia-hyundai-car-thefts-se...
Every manufacturer has got a story at this point.
Not to devil's advocate, but it's tough to prove a negative. All we can say for sure is that they've not been caught yet.
It's more likely that southern states are willing to throw huge incentive packages to these manufacturers. Probably not so much on the coasts or the northern states.
Also, unions are less common in the south; those states tend to be right-to-work states.
Finally, you used the word "impoverished", which is ridiculous. But wages are lower in the south so that is probably another reason.
Georgia and South Carolina tend to be the poorest states. The Poverty rate is around 14.5% for both. Compare that to California where the poverty rate is 12.5%. Though the poverty rate is lower, California has more people in poverty than Georgia and South Carolina combined. Anyway, using the word "impoverished" is grossly misleading.
California is much more likely to have better social services and AFAIK it is less violent in poor neighborhoods than southern states
I would much rather be poor in NYC than Georgia
Problem is, it's not paying off - the state isn't benefiting overall from it, and as soon as they stop providing these sweetheart tax breaks and freebies, comopanies will pull up and move to the next state willing to do so