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Old Posted Oct 22, 2019, 3:08 PM
mrnyc mrnyc is offline
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^ as someone who grew up right in the middle of it, sounds good to me.


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Originally Posted by yuriandrade View Post
According to Wikipedia, "Manufacturing Belt" was the name of that region before the 1970's. Somebody knows if this term was widely used as "Rust Belt", "Corn Belt", "Sun Belt" are used today?
i can say -- yes it was used, as were the others, but no where near as much as rust belt was used afterwards.

and its kind of nice to see most people here agree the old rust belt perjorative is quite an outdated term to be using today. time marches on.
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