And they came by the hundreds of thousands to take jobs in steel factories in Pennsylvania and the coal mines of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

They took jobs in the steel factories of Pennsylvania and the coal mines of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

But the president owes his job partly to the steel workers of West Virginia, a usually Democratic state that voted Republican in 2000.

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There's been an angry reaction to the introduction of steel tariffs designed to protect steel producers in Rust Belt states, like Pennsylvania and West Virginia, key electoral battlegrounds.

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