Word: rust
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sophomore’s first competition of the year seemed a trial by fire—featuring matchups against top-ranked Jeff Jaggers of Ohio State and Arizona State’s Chris Drouin, the nation’s fourth-ranked wrestler. But Jantzen showed no signs of rust as he dominated the field...
When a state lives with a story line of decline for so long, it doesn't just affect the mood. It becomes part of the culture. Whereas America's history has been one of expanding horizons, yours has become funnel-shaped. Much like the postbellum South, Rust Belt culture looks backward at an idealized past--a nostalgia not for plantations but for three-bedroom houses paid up on blue collar salaries. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...important to understand why. Europe is a special place at a special time. In France, they refer to the 30 years of economic expansion and modernization after 1945 as the trentes glorieuses, but you can make a case that it is really the last 20 years, since long-accreting rust began to degrade the Iron Curtain in the spring of 1989, that represent Europe's true Golden...
...hold on to their once solid base in the Midwest as they focused much of their energy on Southern candidates who could help broaden their appeal in culturally conservative parts of the country. With Obama, the party eschewed that strategy and instead found its standard bearer in its industrial Rust Belt roots, a place where Obama's reputation and early ground game could have maximum impact. It was no accident that on election night, Obama captured six of the states that ring Illinois, including three - Ohio, Iowa and Indiana - that John Kerry lost in 2004. (Obama lost adjacent Missouri...
...white working-class Catholics for whom the economy trumped all other issues. But for lower-income Evangelicals in Southern states, that wasn't enough. Even in states that Obama carried, like Virginia and North Carolina, his percentage of the white Evangelical vote was much lower than in the Rust Belt. And in a state like Georgia, which at one point looked like it could be close, white Evangelical support for McCain may have proved pivotal. Kerry won only 16% of the vote in 2004, but Obama barely walked away with...