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
Sunbelt Congressmen could look out for oil and gas; Northwestern Congressmen could protect timber; Representatives from Rustbelt states could defend steel and heavy industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no logical contradiction, no reversal of position, but there was a characteristic blurring of Dukakis' political identity as he tried to repackage himself to reach Gephardt's Rustbelt constituency.
From Time Magazine Archive
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