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Elemeno, a few examples are my dress shoes (Allen Edmonds) and cars (C5 Corvette Z06 and a Chevy Traverse). My home desktop PC is a monster put together by a local company (out of mostly foreign parts, lol). I'm not blindly patriotic. I also own some Mephisto shoes (European made) and owned a Honda S2000 before switching to my Traverse.
I'd love to buy an American motorcycle but neither Harley nor Buell offered the best of what I wanted (I ride a BMW R1200RT these days, Yamaha FJR1300 before that).
When I buy major items, say a large kitchen appliance, I usually make an effort to see if it makes sense to buy American or not. I will pay some extra for top quality/peformance made-in-America but not an absurd amount more.
Part of the deal, for me, is that I work for an American electronics manufacturing company. We're multi-national but still have (dwindling) American presence. I took pride that one of my parts, a sensor, was in my Corvette. I'm not a union type, never was, but I still want to support American made where I can. Getting harder and harder though.
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