JANESVILLE, WI - FEBRUARY 18:
Throughout the southern end of Janesville, General Motors properties are demarcated and blocked off from use. The decommissioned GM Assembly Plant covers 4,800,000 square feet on the southern end of town. Since production ceased in 2008, the surrounding neighborhood has struggled to bounce back.
Amy Goldstein excerpt:
Janesville, Wisconsin, lies three fourths of the way from Chicago to Madison along Interstate 90’s path across America from coast to coast. It is a county seat of 63,000, built along a bend in the Rock River. It is the hometown of House Speaker Paul Ryan. It is an old United Auto Workers town in a state led by a new generation of conservative, Gov. Scott Walker (R). It is a Democratic town still, though the economic blow that befell Janesville is the kind of reversal of fortune that drove many working class Americans to support Donald Trump for president.
(Photo by Alyssa Schukar for The Washington Post)
