Cotton growing in Arizona and New Mexico is on the decline. I have seen several cotton gins close locally in New Mexico.
Chile & pecan has expanded here locally. They require less water. Cotton requires water in processing cotton into cloth and dying that cloth.
*At the height of the cotton boom in 1953, Arizona’s cotton acreage expanded significantly to 695,000, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. * As of 2022, Arizona has approximately 105,000 acres planted with cotton, representing a significant decrease compared to the peak years.
It isn’t so much that shaking damages equipment, it is that is messes with critical alignment that has to be in place between machines since a single wafer takes dozens of processing steps over 2-3 months to produce a wafer with high yields of working chips. Of course a large enough quake could actually damage some equipment.
I am sure the Woke and DEI people hate Trump and like Democrats but it is a dwindling set.
Working class Americans like Trump. They are very happy with the low inflation, low gas prices. The immigration / border issue is under control. They appreciate Trump fighting for them to bring back manufacturing jobs.
Those two bits are, especially, what his base voted for. And there is hard data to show they are getting what they voted for. Immigrants, that ICE catches, are down, and Honda, Nissan, GM, are all reported to be adding staff to ramp up production in their US plants. at the expense of workers in Japan, Canada, and Mexico. (that last one surprised me. I expected Honda to drop the HR-V, rather than move production to the US)