11.   At the other end of town is Pinardville, a nondescript commercial strip of shopping malls and supermarkets just across the river from the old textile mills of Manchester.

12.   Battered by imports and automation, textile mills and garment factories have closed virtually every month, breeding the kind of economic anxiety that helps pollinate a protectionist message.

13.   Before the epidemic, anthrax was an annoying, but treatable, occupational hazard of weavers and wool pickers in textile mills.

14.   Berra Lee Byrd Sr. used to work down at the textile mill.

15.   A third of its residents, including many of the magnates whose textile mills and palaces still stand here, were Jews.

16.   A white woman in my class talked about her relatives who worked in the textile mills.

17.   After the Civil War, the migration of textile mills from the Northeast to the South propped up largely agrarian economies of hundreds of textile towns and mill villages.

18.   Buchanan preached America-first protectionism in a gray downpour outside a shuttered textile mill.

19.   But the same open trade laws that contributed to the demise of the textile mills have spawned an economic revival in South Carolina.

20.   Cotton fell to its lowest price in more than five months after a report showed slowing demand from U.S. textile mills.