America's fastest-dying cities

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It’s been another rough decade for the Rust Belt. And things really aren’t rosy in Ohio, which is home to three of the top five cities that are fading away.

The top 5 fastest dying American cities

1. Canton, Ohio

2. Youngstown, Ohio

3. Flint, Mich.

4. Scranton, Pa.

5. Dayton, Ohio

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1. places that keep voting republican

enjoy

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3. Uh, no.

By and large those places have Democratic mayors and Democratic representatives in the house. The Rust Belt areas are the most Democratic areas of Ohio. It's the rest of the state that's red. It's bad enough that you base your opinion of who should suffer upon who they vote for, but it's doubly bad that you're completely ignorant of who they vote for in the first place.

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5. Canton and Dayton are pretty RED

But the others are blue

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6. Isn't Wright Patterson AFB just outside of Dayton?

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7. Yep

One of my b-in-laws was stationed there and now works for them as a consultant. He and his wife, born and raised as NYC Democrats, are now hard-line Repugs, mostly because they are pro-lifers.

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2. I was thinking of Presidential elections

but generally yes, people end up with what they choose.

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4. Four of the 10 are in Ohio. 3 are in NE Ohio.

Of course, the Blame Feeler shat on this article, listing the cornucopia of things to do in Cleveland and all the various other occupations that are sprouting up (mostly white collar) . . . doesn't mean a whole lot to our once-thriving but now displaced by Neo-Conomics working blue collar class, who saw all of their jobs go to either cheaper places in America or slave-labor places in the world.

Oh well, they can always pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get a college degree and . . . oh, wait, people with master's degrees are also getting laid off in Ohio.