Quote Originally Posted by Wesley Mouch View Post
Wikipedia is always right.

Note that they say 1980s.

To me at least, the term tells you what was happening in Youngstown, Milwaukee, and Detroit in the 1980s. America's northern manufacturing was starting to rust.
I read it. I think it's kind of odd that we're even debating that Rust Belt is a euphemism for decline. Did you all think it was a term of endearment? lol.