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Here, people came together as their worlds collapsed. What the rest of the country can learn from the Rust Belt’s history.

In Camden, New Jersey, families saw a lot of tragedy. Buildings that were once cathedrals of manufacturing stood abandoned, as if shelled out in a war. The city was part of a diverse region the rest of the country clumped together and dismissed as the Rust Belt. It was a decline decades in the making, a slow burn that made our crisis even more invisible. Yet something about disasters—perhaps that shared sense of fate and responsibility—makes...