They're both the same. The same interests are at stake. The same sides are drawn up, the same schemes are at work in the Congo that are at work in Mississippi. Awareness of interdependence of the world means achieving an awareness of the world as a global system, in which the growing interconnectedness of the peoples and societies of the world socially, ecologically, politically, and culturally is recognized. What globalization means to the rest of the world is what the better business climate that we've created in the Southeast has meant for this nation.
People talk about globalization as if developing countries are the ones most negatively impacted.
Yet for as long as we've had the Southeast in the United States, we've had an economy built on slave labor and the exploitation of cheap labor. That is our history. Over the last ten years companies from all over the North have come down South to exploit cheaper labor because of the history of no unionization and limited unionization in the South. The South is about five percent unionized. They come to the South where these constraints don't exist.