Your position is ahistorical. The Rust Belt exists (primarily) because the companies who owned all the big manufacturing in the late 20th century outsourced al

Your position is ahistorical. The Rust Belt exists (primarily) because the companies who owned all the big manufacturing in the late 20th century outsourced all of that labor to Asia. If people who live there have a higher-than-average distrust of big corporate bullshit, it's an effect of being abandoned by them, not the cause of it.