rust belt

They are building housing at a pace much closer to those of Rust Belt cities like Detroit and coastal cities like Los Angeles these days.

Paramount, a small city of 54,000 in southeastern Los Angeles County, is known for how its residents and government officials worked in the 1980s to transform their hometown from a blighted “rust belt” community to one that gained national awards.

He’s right: while coastal cities like New York and Boston are often the focus of Italian-American food histories, large numbers of Italian immigrants also settled in the Appalachian and Rust Belt regions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, drawn by work in coal mines, steel mills, and railroads.

These hits were geographically concentrated in the Rust Belt and the south.

So the promise is that these jobs will return, not just to the Rust Belt, but across the US.