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During the semester, I shall post course material and students will comment on it. Students are also free to comment on any aspect of American politics, either current or historical. There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges. This blog is on the open Internet, so post nothing that you would not want a potential employer to see. Syllabus: http://gov20h.blogspot.com/2023/08/draft-introduction-to-american-politics.html

Saturday, December 3, 2016

The Decline of Rust Belt Manufacturing

This is an interesting Minneapolis Fed article I found  about the Rust Belt economy, and the fall of US manufacturing. With so much anti-globalism going around, this article clarifies a lot about the Rust Belt perspective. It also does a lot to explain the deterioration of the Rust Belt manufacturing economy. It did a lot to reduce my anxiety that people elected Trump because of hate, when this bleak picture is the reality that they were living. I am not saying that Trump's rhetoric is admissible, nor am I saying that I understand the supporters of his who supported him because of his racism, but this helps answer the giant "Why/How" that many of us have had on our minds since November 8th.

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/economic-policy-papers/competition-and-the-decline-of-the-rust-belt


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