rust belt

He’s right: while coastal cities like New York and Boston are often the focus of Italian-American food histories, large numbers of Italian immigrants also settled in the Appalachian and Rust Belt regions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, drawn by work in coal mines, steel mills, and railroads.

These hits were geographically concentrated in the Rust Belt and the south.

So the promise is that these jobs will return, not just to the Rust Belt, but across the US.

California’s out-migration has come to resemble the pattern long associated with Rust Belt states.

In Scranton on Wednesday…. a 45-year-old former construction worker, looked around at poverty in the Rust Belt city and thought the nation needed a change in leadership.