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In Appalachia, Solidarity For the Rust Belt

By |February 3, 2017|Arts & Culture, Current Issue, Features|

In the pre-election media race to locate the “heart of Trump Country,” all finish lines pointed toward Appalachia and the Rust Belt. In declining cities across these sometimes overlapping regions, journalists drank from what appeared to be an infinite well of wrenching stories from economically precarious white voters.

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