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Stephan Bisaha

Here's one potential winner from the UAW strike: Non-union auto workers in the South

Autoworkers at Mercedes plant in Vance, Ala., assemble an all-electric SUV. (Stephan Bisaha/Gulf States Newsroom)

When German automaker Mercedes revealed plans to open a new assembly plant in the U.S. in 1993, 19 states started courting the luxury car maker.

Alabama was considered the dark horse. Its proposed site near Tuscaloosa had no major airport, the state had an unskilled workforce and high poverty.

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