Trumps Approval Rating Stands Below 40 Percent in Three Key Midwest States

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15. I have been to western PA a number of times

but have also been to the midwest many times and have relatives there, and they are not like Western PA either.

The current transformation of western PA had been preceded by eastern PA's similar transformation that happened decades before, with the move away from industrial/manufacturing, and into more diversified types of occupations. Eastern PA also has the proximity to NYC & D.C. to reinforce the "eastern" feel.

With the loss of of the industry here, the steel from places like Pittsburgh shifted to the midwest where there had still been a thriving automotive industry (and all the support for that), so you had that relationship going on. But that didn't make them "midwestern". One of my uncles has lived in the MW (Chicago burbs & Minneapolis burbs) for the past 40 years and there is absolutely no way that either Illinois or Minnesota, are like PA, eastern or western.