Where Do You Go When Your Blue Collar Town Loses Businesses?

In the not too distant past, blue collar jobs abounded in Columbus, Mississippi. A person could graduate from high school, start working as, say, a machinist, and retire comfortably a quarter century later. NAFTA effectively did away with that kind of opportunity at the turn of the century. Manufacturing jobs have returned for skilled laborers since then. But will those be enough to keep people here?