As a result, the American rustbelt does not speak with one voice on this issue.
Mr Kerry's talk about Benedict Arnold corporations exporting American jobs goes down well in the rustbelt.
Democrats have their eyes not just on West Virginia, but on rustbelt Ohio and old-manufacturing Kentucky.
The danger, of course, is that such projects bring rustbelt problems in future.
In Argentina, the government has sent units of the border police and a naval guard to the rustbelt suburbs of Buenos Aires.
There are no better examples than re-engineered rustbelt industrials and Intel.
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In the Buenos Aires rustbelt in particular, there is a corrupt symbiosis between Peronist political bosses, police chiefs, young toughs and drug traffickers.
It still has plenty of lessons for other rustbelt cities.
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The Democrats of this predominantly white, blue-collar corner of rustbelt Pennsylvania are a conservative lot who did not think highly of Barack Obama when he was running for president.
Jittery investors now have little enthusiasm even for such choice offerings as the telephone monopoly or the power grid, let alone rustbelt industries that still keep some 300, 000 workers on government wages.
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Li Daokui of Tsinghua University in Beijing says that China's trade surplus might turn negative within two years, though the bilateral surplus with America will no doubt persist, to the continued annoyance of rustbelt senators.
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That would be a bitter reverse for Mr Romney in the first rustbelt state in the Midwest to hold a primary, the very state where he grew up and where his father was a popular governor.
Here, then, is a clue to ways in which rustbelt cities may be able to reinvent themselves: create new industries based on fun and games call them culture, if you prefer and certainly exploit whatever is already in place.
To make matters worse, there are signs that the piqueteros are now being used in a long-running battle between Mr Kirchner and Mr Duhalde for control of the ruling Peronist party's machine in the Buenos Aires rustbelt.
Rustbelt states bled jobs in the downturn.
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Venice comes in two parts: the city in the lagoon that foreign tourists love, where the population has dwindled to less than 60, 000, and a bigger, more politically influential mainland area, Mestre, that is lumbered with rustbelt industries.
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