Mr Vance was born into a far humbler environment in the steel town of Middletown, Ohio, raised in an unstable home by a ...
You've probably heard of the Rust Belt, the region in the Midwest and Northeast where once-booming economies are on the decline. You may also be familiar with the Bible Belt, a stretch in the ...
The United States is home to several "belts," including the Rust Belt and the Bible Belt. They are some of the many regions that share distinct characteristics and make the US so diverse.
The title “American Rust” is taken from the phrase “rust belt,” of course, which is commonly used to refer to fading, ...
Voices from the Rust Belt, ed. Anne Trubeck, Belt Publishing, 256 pages. They call the wide expanse from the Northeast to the Upper Midwest the Rust Belt. The region’s geographical lines ...
Photo: Getty Images Hillbilly Elegy is an autobiographical account of Vance’s life, growing up in a poor, white dysfunctional family, first in Middletown, Ohio, in America’s Rust Belt, a steel town ...