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Donald Trump took three 'rust belt' states that are part of the 'blue wall' in 2016. What states are they?
Donald Trump narrowly captured each on his way to collapsing the Democrats’ vaunted “blue wall” in 2016. Joe Biden grabbed them back four years later – by the narrowest of margins.
The Great Lakes megalopolis shown in orange is associated with the Rust Belt. Sectors of the U.S. economy as percent of GDP between 1947 and 2009 [20] Since the term "Rust Belt" is used to refer to a set of economic and social conditions rather than to an overall geographical region of the U.S., the Rust Belt has no precise boundaries.
With the U.S. election just a week away, recently released government data and new analysis show just how little progress Trump made in changing the trajectory of the Rust Belt region that ...
In the United States, deindustrialisation is mostly a regional phenomenon centered in the Rust Belt, a region including the original industrial centres from New England to the Great Lakes. The number of people employed in manufacturing nationwide peaked in 1979 at 19,553,000 jobs, although the most significant losses occurred in the first ...
America’s union workers were crucial to Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, but key to his defeat in 2020, writes John Bowden
A region in America once defined by decaying factories is now defined by fresh water, tourism, research centers and other advanced industries.
Time will tell if Trump can reverse those states' fortunes, but in the meantime, many of the states in the Rust Belt are dying slowly.