Rust Belt
The Rust Belt (in English “girdles rust”) was named until in the Années 1970 the Manufacturing Belt (“girdles factories”). This change of name in known as length on the economic evolution of the area. This one corresponded of long time to a development area of the Industrie S doors. At the time of the American Civil War, when one compared North industrialized with the South of the Plantation S, it is of this area of which it was an already question. The area today was partly reconverted into state-of-the-art technologies.
The Manufacturing Belt contributed largely to the effort of war during the Second world war: the whole of the requirements in blast furnaces, Metallurgy, access to the layers of raw materials (mines of coal and Iron, river routes transportation) concentrated there to provide for the colossal requirements in material for the allied forces.
Michael Moore carried out a Documentary film entitled Roger and me . Its subject is the destiny of the birthplace of the realizer, Flint, floret of industry Automobile of the time of the Manufacturing Belt (factories of General Motors).
Geography
The Manufacturing Belt extends from Chicago to the coasts Atlantique S and skirts the Big lakes as well as the Canadian border . it covers part of North East of the United States
Demography
Following the decline of the industries door, and with the economic reconversion of the area, the population left the old economic centers to settle in more dynamic areas. This involved an impressive depopulation of certain big cities. Thus the town of Cleveland saw its population passing of more than 910 000 inhabitants in 1950 with less 480 000 in 2000. Since, the tendency seems to return to the rise, with a light increase in the number of inhabitants.
The important urban centres of the area are:
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