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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2017 19:39:05 EST lnxw48a1
   A big part of Reagan's ascension was Jimmy Carter. Between the hostage crisis at the embassy in Iran (where US government employees were held for 444 days) and an oil boycott that crushed Chrysler and sent them begging for loan guarantees to stay in business, Carter's term was a time of setbacks at home and abroad.
   
   People in my Hispanic neighborhood area of Los Angeles County knew where they would work after high school. Right across the bridge from us was an area of factories and warehouses. But the recession caused by the the oil boycott (and gas lines, odd-even days to fill the tank) knocked most of those companies out completely. I revisited the area about twenty years later and most of those buildings were still vacant. drove through there about ten years ago and found that some of those buildings had been demolished and turned into retail centers.
   
   People in my neighborhood (mostly minorities and mostly Catholic and Democrat) felt like the leaders in DC completely ignored the pain their policies caused us. They sent Reagan there (twice!) to help bring back jobs that they felt Democrats had caused to be lost.
   1. sulman (sulman@smiley.thespinning.top)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2017 22:44:13 EST sulman

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      @lnxw48a1 It's not dissimilar around here. Steel went, and got replaced downtown with medicine and education, but all those mill towns around the city got left behind. Those people voted trump.
      
      It's not an easy problem to solve, though. I saw the same thing in England when coal left the North. When something's gone and it's not coming back, you've got to find a way of helping people.