Trump takes economic message to Michigan amid dwindling popularity

When factories were roaring, Michigan – home to three large automakers – was at the centre of manufacturing in the United States.

So when globalisation took over and many US factories shut down as outsourcing led to the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs in the 1980s and 1990s, the Midwestern state became the symbol of what happens to communities during deindustrialisation.

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