And we have the Ohio river that would take that coal up there and then coke it, make the steel. And we had manufacturing attached to that. Union carbide was up there. We had all of this kind of internal … Charleston, West Virginia, is one of the poorest cities now east of the Mississippi. … in. Globalization, when they, you can just march down the line on this and you go, look at NAFTA was really an opening shot on this.93. Yep, 1993. (29:57–30:13)
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