Summary

Historians and political scientists say that framing the wins as ‘Ohio’s working class has come home’ is too simple A t its peak, the Mahoning valley was once the beating heart of the US’s steel economy – a hardscrabble, heavily unionized Democratic bastion in north-eastern Ohio . But de-industrialization, sparked by the mass closure of steel mills in the late 1970s, transformed the region.

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