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Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania The Rust Belt Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania
The Rust Belt. Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
In the 1960s, large numbers of white, middle- class Americans moved from older northeastern and midwestern cities to the South and to the West Coast. Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Pennsylvania were previously industrial powerhouses with vibrant economies. Now, factories were closing down and people were losing their jobs.
The Corn Belt North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, *Illinois, *Indiana, Ohio.
The Cotton Belt What the south used to be known as because of agrarian poverty and backwardness
Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina.
The land of new opportunity.
Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Southern California. Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama. Experiencing large population growth. 1960s- growth spreading to places like Phoenix, Las Vegas, Dallas, Miami, Tampa, Austin, and Nashville.