[toddguy]

Originally Posted by IrishIllini

Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Baltimore are recovered rust belt cities but no Chicago? Chicago, Columbus, Grand Rapids, and Indianapolis should have some green around them.

Indy and Cbus should have nothing but white surrounding them-they were never really rust belt cities.

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

I've always gotten the impression that after Chicago, places like Kansas City, Columbus, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids and Minneapolis/St. Paul best represented the Midwest's attempts to shake it's Rust Belt image, at least over the past several decades.

Then again, there's places like Cincinnati that were never really Rust Belt.

If Cincinnati was never rust belt, then Columbus sure as hell was never rust belt.