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Rustbelt

Cultural  
  1. Urban areas in the Northeast and Middle West marked by the concentration of old, declining industries, such as steel and textiles.


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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

The new winners include Midwestern farmers and Rustbelt manufacturers whose prosaic products, from corn to machine tools, are in hot demand around the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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