By Ronald Brownstein and Scott Bland

Sun Belt, Rust Belt: The housing crash as seen in Arizona (left) and Michigan.

New census data show that the Great Recession and its aftermath have battered virtually every state in the nation"”and that some of the heaviest blows have landed on states that may loom the largest in the 2012 presidential election.

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