With unemployment declining, the local truck plant expanding and optimism on the rise, one industrial heartland region has become a microcosm of the reinvigorated America promised by Donald Trump.
Seen
from Williamstown, 300 miles (500 kilometers) west of Washington, the
political tumult since Trump's November 8, 2016 victory appears
artificial to those who welcome his leadership as a break from business
as usual.
The
sleepy West Virginia town is in Wood County where 70 percent of voters
celebrated the anti-establishment victory. A year later, they are
pledging their loyalty to the Trump revolution, praising the billionaire
businessman-turned-national-leader for already delivering on his
declaration to reverse their declining fortunes.
In an elbow of the industrial Ohio River basin, barges are filled with
freight. Factories lining nearby Route 7 belch smoke and steam. On the
highways, trucks are loaded with sections of pipeline and water tanks
used in the region's shale gas drilling.
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