[mylife]

There are a lot of old manufacturing areas that are still hurting.

Largely because old dem die hards think somehow manufacturing will return to its glory days.

[LisaMalia]

There are a lot of old manufacturing areas that are still hurting. Largely because old dem die hards think somehow manufacturing will return to its glory days.

I blame it in part on all the tree-hugging/environmental policies of the liberal Dims in the course of the last 30 years.

However, I know what you're saying, my late daddy was an FDR democrat (not a liberal Dim) until his dying day.

It's the only thing we EVER disagreed about, and I wouldn't debate him about it, although others in my Conservative family did. I knew he would never change his political thought process, and had too much respect for him to even have the conversation.

[ridesthemiles]

Sorta like South Bend, Indiana. Union workers there are still waiting for Studebaker to return.