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And you can't even really equate the "rust belt" with solely the "old Midwest" either, since it includes cities like Buffalo and Rochester, and arguably stretches all the way to Connecticut and western Massachusetts. Frankly, most of these regional shorthands are outdated. Cleveland and Detroit arguably have more in common with Birmingham and Memphis than they do with Columbus or Omaha. Not that Cleveland and Detroit really shared many geographic or cultural similarities with places like Omaha to begin with, despite all being ostensibly "Midwestern" cities.