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It has been over a year since lead contamination in Flint's drinking water became national news. The issue is nowhere near fixed, as residents continue to battle with the state over bottled water deliveries. Since the Michigan city fell under the spotlight, the issue of lead contamination and subsequent testing has grown considerably nationwide. Reuters found that five communities have even more widespread lead poisoning than Flint.
Many cities in the Midwest and rust belt are dealing with the ramifications of past lax regulations from during rough economic times, and where money once provided by local industry and manufacturing has gone. Places like South Bend, Indiana, were found by Reuters to have neighborhoods where 31 percent of small children tested from 2005 to 2015 had high levels of lead in their blood.
Comment: Liberals who are still confused as to Trump's overwhelming popularity in the Rust Belt states would do well to look more closely at America's crumbling infrastructure and the decay of its inner cities to understand why these people have had enough of the Establishment which has failed them in every way possible.