New ghost towns: Industrial communities teeter on the edge

Whether it’s textiles in the Carolinas, paper in New England or steel in the Midwest, most industrial cities and mill towns “are on pins and needles,” says Donald Schunk, an economist at Coastal Carolina University. “Day to day, week to week, any manufacturing facility seems vulnerable. People don’t know if they’ll be there.”

I could post endless pics of NE Ohio, and they’d look exactly like the one in this photo. In fact, at first I thought it was Niles or Youngstown, Ohio.

There’s something happening here, and the Democrats in DC don’t get it.