View from a former NC textile town: Trump's jobs promise will be hard to keep
Story Date: 4/3/2017

 

Source: CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 3/31/17

Scot Wilson estimates he has spent most of his 56 years in an eight-block radius. The youngest of eight kids, Wilson was 16 when he started working at the yarn mill across the street from his family’s home in Maiden, a quiet North Carolina town about 37 miles northwest of Charlotte that was once bustling thanks to its cotton mills. 

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