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here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the Rust Belt

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which looks nothing at all like a belt but apparently rust deformed chicken

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nugget that didn't roll off the tongue quite easily my day leave a passage [Passage appears and man mumbles]

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alright here's question the description

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in the excerpt most directly reflect what and hear your potential answers

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okay well here's a fun fact for every human on earth there are

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1.6 million ants there's another fun and more relevant fact the 80s were a really [Girl surrounded by ants]

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good time for a lot of states even though Latin American and Asian

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immigration brought with it some uncomfortable xenophobia many wrote it

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off is an unfortunate growing pain for such rapid expansion but what did all of [People walking across busy street]

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this most directly reflect well it obviously wasn't see this excerpt

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mentions Texas and California not Michigan in New York and the Rust Belt

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composed of Midwestern cities like Detroit and Cleveland was ending its

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time of regional dominance as more manufacturing jobs were outsourced out [Manufacturing workers appear]

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of the country Toby doesn't fit either and the housing market in the Sun Belt

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was actually helped by this move not first what really happened is that the

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south and the West gained a newfound sense of economic and cultural strength

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that means D is our answer and really does that come as any surprise they just

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gained Latin in Asian cuisine at the same time that doesn't smell like [People waiting in line at sushi stand]

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economic and cultural success than a we don't want to smell it

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