Outsourcing all but destroyed the textile industry in the South over the last few decades, which went from employing more than a million workers in the late 1940s. As Georgia and other Southern states try to lure manufacturers back with tax incentives, an Atlanta company has developed a possible breakthrough: a robotic sewing machine. We speak with Barry Clark, vice president of research and development at SoftWear Automation, and Courtney Hammonds, academic director of the fashion department at