Photo: Mercedes-Benz/dpaDespite the recent "America First" scoldings of President Donald Trump, foreign automakers have helped transform the economy of the Deep South in the past three decades. "Lives are being changed," said Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, where Volkswagen opened a plant in 2011 that now employs more than 3,200 people. Veronica Curtis was one of the first 700 people hired when Mercedes started production at its Tuscaloosa, Alabama plant in 1997, joining just five days after giving birth. "My husband wanted more, and I did too," she said, recounting trips for the company to India, South Africa and Europe. Faraday Future expects to build electric cars near Las Vegas and Lucid Motors is investing $700 million in an electric car plant in Arizona.

Source: The Local June 16, 2017 07:30 UTC