[Wallace T.]

The old Rust Belt region, centered in Ohio and Michigan, and including Indiana, Pennsylvania and parts of Illinois, New York, and West Virginia, continues to deindustrialize. This process has been going on for at least 30 years. We will no doubt find out if America can remain a superpower if our industrial base is gone. Both the neoconservatives, who imagine we can pursue aggressive action to defeat Islamic terrorism, future Chinese hegemony, and a renewed Russian threat without having the manufacturing capacity that provided the North with victory in the Civil War and the nation with victory in the World Wars, and the liberals, who dislike industry in general except when its tax revenues feed their socialist schemes and their inflated wages support their union allies, are to blame for the slow death of U.S. industry.

[Spktyr]

Heads up, the industrial base didn’t evaporate.

It moved to the south and is alive and well, thank you very much.

[Nat Turner]

Actually the rust belt has been dying since the 60’s so its at least 40+ years..