The Auto Alley is an area of concentrated automobile manufacturing in North America, from southern Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico in the Southeastern United States. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Dozens of plants are in the area of highest concentration in southeastern Michigan (including the Motor City of Detroit), Ohio, and southern Ontario. The band includes neighboring states on the Great Lakes, and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico, generally between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. From southern Michigan (including Detroit) to Alabama. As of 2015, though parts suppliers operate in most states (though disproportionately in Auto Alley), there is only one plant owned by an automobile manufacturer on the East Coast. Only a few automaker-owned plants are substantially west of the Mississippi River—in Kansas City, Texas, and coastal California. In Mexico, plants are concentrated near the Coahuila-Nuevo León border, and in central Mexican states. [1]
The Auto Alley is the region that includes both the suppliers and the manufactures of automobiles. The suppliers are clustered in the southern United States, and also in northern Mexico, while the manufactures are mostly clustered in the northern US midwest, especially Michigan, but also includes parts of Canada. Processed supplies are shipped from the south to the north to be manufactured into finished projects. Because of this arrangement, there are movements to move manufacturing towards the south, or move suppliers to the north, but these movements have so far produced limited results. [7]
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. It has land borders with Wisconsin to the southwest, and Indiana and Ohio to the south, and Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie also connect it to the states of Minnesota and Illinois, and the Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly 97,000 sq mi (250,000 km2), Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by area east of the Mississippi River. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies. Its name derives from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word ᒥᓯᑲᒥ, meaning "large water" or "large lake".
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Helianthus is a genus comprising about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae commonly known as sunflowers. Except for three South American species, the species of Helianthus are native to North America and Central America. The best-known species is the common sunflower. This and other species, notably Jerusalem artichoke, are cultivated in temperate regions and some tropical regions, as food crops for humans, cattle, and poultry, and as ornamental plants. The species H. annuus typically grows during the summer and into early fall, with the peak growth season being mid-summer.
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