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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
so, Indy is often lauded as one of the midwest's few urban success stories; a city that beat the odds and didn't fall down into the same old rust belt black hole like so many of its peers did.
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Is Indianapolis even a Rust Belt City? I don't think of it as a manufacturing town like Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Detroit, Youngstown, etc.
If it comes to decline between 1960 and 2020, how many established cities in the Northeast and Midwest did not decline? This is as opposed to growing cities that came of age in the 1960s and 1970s in the South and West, like Los Angeles, Seattle, Phoenix, Dallas, Atlanta, etc?
Indianapolis does have the distinction of getting professional sports at the same time as coming-of-age cities like Phoenix, Dallas, Seattle, Atlanta, and others. Compare that to Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and others that had professional sports like MLB and/or NFL in the 1920s, 1940s, and into the 1960s.
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