A comeback for made in the U.S.A.

• Position: Domestic products

Three years ago, Stephanie Sanzone a graduate student in environmental policy at George Mason University in Virginia, started the Web site Stillmadeinusa.com to promote American products.

Since August, traffic on the site has quadrupled. Many of the new visitors say the recall of Chinese-made toys inspired them to act.

"I'm getting art these impassioned e-mails saying, 'I'm never going to buy anything made in China again,' and it really is from a different crowd," she says.

Revelations about read-paint-tainted toys and contaminated foods have led to fears that products made in China are unsafe. That, along with an interest in supporting local economies for both economic and environmental, reasons, has prompted a growing respect for the "Made in the U.S.A." label among many Americans.

Traditionally, it was mostly blue-collar union workers who paid attention to whether products from clothes to cars were made in the U.S.--either out of patriotism or concern that their jobs would move overseas. Not so anymore.

The new prestige of "Made in America" had an effect on Elizabeth Preston of Washington, D.C. Preston, 33, says she felt drawn to the "Handbuilt in the U.S.A." sticker on the $1,250 Trek road bike she bought for her boyfriend a few months ago.

"There's something about the idea of the workmanship and supporting the United States' economy," she says.

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