Voices from the Rust Belt, ed. Anne Trubeck, Belt Publishing, 256 pages. They call the wide expanse from the Northeast to the Upper Midwest the Rust Belt. The region’s geographical lines, subject to ...
They are some of the many regions that share distinct characteristics and make the US so diverse. The United States can be divided and subdivided into countless regions, each sharing a unique set of ...
The story of the Rust Belt begins with spectacular success, not failure. Between the late 19th century and the late 20th century, the Rust Belt formed the industrial heartland of the country, with ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam writes about state and local policy and urban economic issues. In 11 days Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45 th ...
Democrats are looking at a 2024 Electoral College map very few of them expected. President Joe Biden’s breakthrough 2020 wins in Arizona and Georgia seemed to confirm that the party’s future was ...
Justin Torres is author of the novel “We the Animals.” I grew up in the Rust Belt, the easternmost tip, in a small town near a Great Lake, where my mother worked in an industrial brewery and my father ...
The Rust Belt, the postindustrial midwest, flyover country. Are these terms—which describe the area roughly from Wisconsin to Buffalo, New York—useful anymore? Were they ever? Every four years, the ...
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 ...
We've seen the fortunes rise for America's cities on the east and west coasts, and the cities of the Sun Belt continue their rapid acceleration in growth and prosperity. Where I live, in the capital ...