Hollywood (liberals) need to pull out of GA, now!

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6. It would be extremely difficult at this point, but I would at least start with some symbolic moves

Ever since Burt Reynolds started filming his popular southern films there (Gator, Smokey, Deliverance etc.), Georgia became a popular and affordable mecca for many Hollywood studios. Over the last 40+ years, they have built up a film industry there that can't just pull up and leave overnight, taking the infrastructure and topography with them.

But they could start, and slowly turn down the scale of their activities there--enough for the state to start losing tens of millions in tax revenue. Nothing else would work. But money talks loudly in southern states, especially ones with little else to offer, and the big European car manufacturers are in South Carolina and (so far) Alabama.

The Germans (Mercedes) are super-heavily invested in Alabama, and they won't leave from one day to the next over the new anti-abortion law. But German women get pregnant, too, and won't want to have to fly home every time an unwanted pregnancy should occur among their community. Stuttgart will begin to feel the pressure soon enough here in Europe, and new investments in Alabama will crawl to a standstill. I am betting Merkel herself will have words with them. If she has the guts to pull Germany off the nuclear power grid after Fukushima, she definitely has the guts to call in the board of directors of Mercedes about staying and expanding in Alabama.