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What's up with this global western phenomenon of formerly rich industrial areas being incredibly poor now? Areas like the Rustbelt, Ruhr Valley, Northern England and Wales, the former mining areas in the Netherlands, Belgium and Northern France?

by /u/Pashahlis in /r/AskHistorians

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