Rustbelt
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He was cast as the face of a Rustbelt renewal.
From Washington Times • Feb. 17, 2022
“Compared to his 2016 vote, his 2017 approval among blue-collar white women in the Rustbelt represented some of his largest declines anywhere—18 points in Ohio and 19 in Wisconsin and Minnesota,” the Atlantic found.
From The Guardian • Feb. 20, 2018
It may have begun in June 2013, during the 2013 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam in Madison, Wisconsin, when a recent Macalester College graduate named Neil Hilborn took the stage to read a poem called “OCD.”
From Newsweek
Nonetheless, the announcement from General Motors last week sent a powerful shudder of concern through the Midwestern Rustbelt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its narrator, Kenneth Trachtenberg, 35, is an assistant professor of Russian literature at a university in an unnamed "Rustbelt metropolis" in the Midwest.
From Time Magazine Archive
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