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The Great Lakes megalopolis shown in orange, part of the Rust Belt Sectors of the U.S. economy as a percentage 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.
Many associate American deindustrialization with the mass closing of automaker plants in the now so-called Rust Belt between 1980 and 1990. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The US Federal Reserve raised interest and exchange rates beginning in 1979, and continuing until 1984, which automatically caused import prices to fall.
Donald Trump took three 'rust belt' states that are part of the 'blue wall' in 2016. What states are they?
During the 2016 presidential election, the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, was considered a heavy favorite to win the electoral college because of this trend, [1] [2] but Republican nominee Donald Trump challenged the strength of the "blue wall" Rust Belt states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, which became swing states in the ...
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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.
1964: The Twenty-fourth Amendment is ratified by three-fourths of the states, formally abolishing poll taxes and literacy tests which were heavily used against African-American and poor white women and men. 1965: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 strenuously prohibits racial discrimination in voting, resulting in greatly-increased voting by African ...
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 ...