Trump tests Rust Belt pitch in Pennsylvania amid Iran, inflation pressures

By Jarrett Renshaw and Trevor Hunnicutt LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania, June 23 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald ...
Phys.org

Rust Belt voters aren't all white, but reporting often ignores the concerns of people of color there, says geographer

Every four years, national media turn their attention to the Rust Belt, a term that describes Midwestern industrial and manufacturing states whose economies were decimated by the decline of those ...
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JD Vance: the VP candidate raised in a Rust Belt home by a drug-addict mother

When JD Vance released his ode to a forgotten Middle America in 2016, he became an instant literary icon. Hillbilly Elegy, his memoir-cum-analysis of the Rust Belt’s decline, and a candid account of ...
CNN

Voters in communities affected by decline of US manufacturing weigh their 2024 options

Ex-Jill Biden spokesperson on why he thinks former first lady’s recent CBS interview has damaged her credibility ...
Detroit Free Press

It’s time to retire the ‘Rust Belt’ slur. They don’t call it the Great Lakes for nothing

Note to the national political press corps: Enough with the Rust Belt. The term’s implication of exhaustion and decay may have fit the Great Lakes and industrial Midwest in the 1970s and ‘80s. I ...
Rasmussen Reports

Trump's Sun Belt Hopes and Rust Belt Needs

Donald Trump's first election redrew the map of American politics; suddenly Pennsylvania and Michigan were in the Republican column for the first time since the 1980s. But they didn't stay there: The ...