Is PA an East Coast state or a rust belt state?
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Anonymous
| Thoughts? Most of it seems more similar to Ohio than NY and New England. |
Anonymous
| Western part is rust belt, eastern part is east coast |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
+1. Same for Western NY, really. Way more in common with Ohio than the North East. |
Anonymous
+2 Philadelphians call the "beach" the "shore", just like people from New Jersey. |
Anonymous
| I'm for Philadelphia and while I agree that the eastern part = east coast and the rest (from 1 hr west of Philly onwards) is Rust Belt, the reality is economically the entire state is the Rust Belt. Philadelphia does NOT have the economy of NYC or DC or Boston or anywhere close to them. |
Anonymous
And the middle is Alabama. |
Anonymous
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Outside of Philly suburbs, PA is either a rust belt or bible thumping state, depending on the coordinates.
That south-central part around Lancaster isn't really rust belt. Neither is Gettysburg, Carlisle, etc. State College. Those are the religious, farming areas. But, Scranton is definitely Rusty. Erie, Pittsburgh, Allentown, etc. |
Anonymous
| Rust belt |
Anonymous
| The only east coast of pa is Philly, that's it. |
Anonymous
| Pittsburgh has far more in common with Ohio and the mid-west than it does with the east coast. |
Anonymous
| Both. Main line is east coast. Mid and west PA are rust belt. |
Anonymous
| It's odd how people glamorize Philly and Main Line. Philly and its burbs have been rotting away for decades. |
Anonymous
| I grew up in Allentown and spent 4 years in central PA. Philly is east coast. Its suburbs are east coast. Western PA and northeast PA are old steel areas and are rust belt. Everything else is Pennsyltucky. |
Anonymous
+1. Most of the people posting here aren't from Philly. There isn't much of an economy in Philly anymore -- an old manufacturing city which is now just an ed-and-med city -- not much different than lots of other secondary markets out there. |