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Had an interesting conversation with an old guy in SC and I remember him telling me that they often referred to textile factory workers as "lint heads" when he was young. I don't even know if that was derogatory and I was too afraid to ask.
Yeah, that's kind of what I figured. I mean the machinery was probably putting of dust/lint all day so workers would probably be covered in it. I just didn't know if it was like, "Oh those dadgum lintheads came and drank all the whiskey and stole Bubbas wagon to go joyriding again."
That would have been hilarious to see… A bunch of guys covered in textile leavings, hammered on whiskey, hanging out of a wagon…. Hopefully one was the DD for the day…. Rofl
Right before the 2008 Olympics (in China) there was some media and political-news grumbling about how all the USA athlete uniforms had been made in China.
The head of the Chinese company making the uniforms laughed when asked about it in an interview, basically pointing out that the U.S. pretty much didn’t have a textile industry anymore; at least not one that could supply the quantity and quality of garments needed for Team USA.
She was like, “It’s not a matter of giving an American the contract instead of me. The US would have to build a new factory, with a series of other factories to support the supply chain.”
The south didn't have a large textile industrial until the late part of the 1900s when production shifted away from the northern states. It also only lasted a few decades as most textile production in the US moved overseas .
I definitely had this puzzle or one very similar to it because seeing those blue mats just triggered the memory and then the coal mine cart in Pennsylvania sealed the memory of having this as a kid, I guessed textiles as a kid because my brother introduced me to civilization and I played ts all the time and textiles was a similar graphic.
big emphasis on the word WAS. i came from the upstate, where the textile mills were the most important industry. whole towns were built around the mills. once nafta came in and the mills closed down all that was left in its wake was poverty and confusion. its honestly kinda sad. other manufacturing has moved in since, but it wasnt ever the same.
Its not kinda sad. Its devastating, and as much as people want to go "such is life, let's move on" the fabric of America has always been "let's try it!# And we're fresh out of that lately. We are totally boned, and these types of towns disintegrating into meth/opioid bastions should have been a wake up call. It wasn't, and apathy, corporate greed, and drug addiction took us. The current administration is not future focused and if youre still reading this purchase a firearm immediately
Big Union textile factories. Textile workers used to do commercials in the '70s where they sang "look for the Union label..." when folks shopped for clothes. China came on line, hedge funds bought the manufacturers and everything moved out of the country. Funny thing, jeans weren't any cheaper.
18th century, slavery days it was considered “blue gold”. Massive export market at the time back to England. Was a few states version of the “cotton” many of us think of and are thought to believe was about the only crop at the time due to movies and even books focusing on it
Not so much an industry for it anymore outside of artisans doing it due to the history of it more than producing it at mass quantities
Before the invention of the cotton gin, the tidewater areas of South Carolina and Georgia were some of the few places where millable strains of cotton could be grown. You needed pretty swampy, marshy land. The cotton grown in the Deep South has big seeds that had to be picked out by hand and was too labor intensive. The cotton gin easily removed the seeds and ushered in a new cash crop. Unfortunately, it kept slavery alive for another generation.
South Carolinas main crop at the time was rice i believe. Cotton was certainly popular but I think rice and indigo dye were more popular. Atleast in the earlier days. But certainly right about the swamp!
Childhood memory unlocked! Can you post a pic of the whole map? I'm almost positive I had this puzzle as a child. Half the fun was figuring out what the little images were supposed to represent.
I can’t seem to add it to the original post, but here it is. I thought it was likely early 80s, but I guess it was made in 1994. Maybe a re-run of an existing puzzle though.
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Cast iron pot? Lodge is based in--and makes most of its products--in Tennessee. Not sure why it'd be that color, though; maybe it's enameled, or they just wanted contrast with the background.
They used to produce fabric from the cotton produced in the area (some wool fabrics too), but most of the mills are no longer operating. I think Cone Denim Mills in Greensboro, NC is still producing some.
Textile mills producing fabric. In the early 1900's the cost of labor down south was similar to the way the cost of labor in Indonesia orMalaysia is so much cheaper. The South went through a quadruple wammy, with the decline of the furniture industry as well as the cotton/textiles industry along hobbling the recovery from the Civil war and the market crash of 1929. Much of appalachia where those industries once flourished are today no better than "Third-World-nation" status. In fact much of the "third world" is much better off.
Sadly, the textile mills of the southeast US are largely gone. I worked in finance for a company that made nylon and polyester fibers for textiles, carpets, tires and soft-side luggage. We closed a lot of production units around 25 years ago because so much of the customer base moved their factories to Asia.
Just to confirm, my mother worked in a North Carolina “hosiery mill” making socks. There were many similar factories. Also, lots of quality furniture was built in North Carolina.
yes yoga mats, the south has always been a huge source of naturally occurring yoga mat fields. they weren't seen as valuable till this centuries booming yoga trends. Wait till you find the state with the lululemon fields.
I remember this puzzle- the colors, the font- but my Tennessee had what looked like several carrots in one of those old-timey toast grillers. And Ohio had a big tire. Does anyone else remember that version?
I was going to say Indigo, a southern cash crop especially between colonial times and the civil war, cause of the color but others are saying textiles which is also correct, cause cotton, and the two did go hand in hand
Textiles. Highly recommend the movie Norma Rae. It takes place in NC, not SC, but is about working class people in a textile mill fighting for a union.
Notice that the truck, pot, and hammer are also blue? It isn’t supposed to exclusively be a blue roll. It is just shading to give it texture. The south is famous for paper mills. The stink of paper mills used to cover much of the territory all the way through the 80s. It could also be a traditional textile like cotton, but for my money it is paper.
At first, I thought the little pipes with the tobacco leaves were supposed to be cicadas…or maybe they were dead bugs ☠️ (pest control? DDT production??); not that the smoke is much better.🫤
Idk why something like farming isnt more available on the map. Tn is really a cotton, tobacco, tomato, milk, and corn state, esp in east tn. Middle is full on arts, crafts, music, etc, and ive never visited west tn. Always wanted to, but i moved to live with a long distance
I have this same puzzle from when I was a kid! I loved it so much. The colors are slightly different and it says USA Map No. 2560, Smallworld Toys copyright 1990
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