Opposition to Tesla comes from the left as well as the right.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Tesla is really small

And you hit the nail. Detroit does not want any manufacturing outside Detroit. Good reasons, if you are from Detroit. The more that happens the more trouble Detroit is is in.

It is not even the Unions who have done that, though they get the blame. The trend that led to that started in the 1960s and has to do a tad with corruption, but a lot with white flight. (And a depressed tax base).

Michigan needs to find ways to increase that base, but they are in a nasty political cycle right now, and the unions get the blame, especially the city unions that calculated retiree benefits based on populations remaining steady or growing (like most municipalities). They were hit with decreased populations, white flight and the 2008 crash.

Sorry for being a tad technical there.