Last time I visited Ohio, it seemed like a perfectly nice place. But apparently anyone with half a brain is ready to leave.
This is part of the knowledge economy, I think, part of a significant shift in the productive centers of the world. Many jobs can be done from anywhere, so they migrate to hot spots like Atlanta, San Francisco, Austin, Boston, Bangalore, Tokyo, Seoul. People with the skills to fill those jobs move with them. People without skills are abandoned in ghost towns like they were during the Dust Bowl days. They grow xenophobic, regressive, strange. Their customs are alien to us.
P&G is a major source of jobs and a community anchor in Ohio, but the AFA and other groups are attacking it. They’re attacking their best and brightest, driving out the diversity that makes an economy thrive, eliminating the kinds of things that could make cities like Dayton an attractive place for new jobs and new talent. Bite the hand that feeds you, and eventually, you’ll starve.