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...Connecticut, Republican John Rowland seemed like a lock. Now Democrat Bill Curry is making gains with an ad that asks of the state's deficit, "Governor, what did you do with all that money?" One big gubernatorial trend with national implications is the decline of the so-called Frostbelt Republican Governor. In the 1990s some of the biggest names in the G.O.P. came from this tier: John Engler of Michigan, William Weld of Massachusetts, Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin, Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania, Christie Todd Whitman of New Jersey, to name a few. These Governors aided the G.O.P. in two fundamental...
...fact, what was ailing us was a good deal more concrete than Seltzer suggested. The U.S. was in the midst of a postwar upheaval tearing tens of millions of us loose from the moorings of generations. From the agrarian South to the industrial North, from Frostbelt to Sunbelt, from the city street to the suburban cul-de-sac, a boundless prosperity was luring us to new places far from family and the old neighborhood...
Before energy prices collapsed, the conventional wisdom held that America's economy was being split along have and have-not lines: a prosperous Sunbelt and a rusting Frostbelt. Now, however, there is talk about a different sort of "two Americas." In the new version, the haves are the high-tech industries and financial-service firms stretching from New Hampshire down the Eastern seaboard and from California's Silicon Valley down to Orange County; the have-nots include the farmers, energy producers and heavy manufacturers in between. The split that some see emerging counterposes booming coasts against a problem-plagued heartland...
Migration drained the Frostbelt in the late 1970s. More than 1 million New Yorkers, for example, packed their suitcases and headed for the Sunbelt between 1975 and 1980, 375,000 of them bound for Florida. But in the past two years, states that were once synonyms for exhaustion have had small revivals: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan have gained population...
...professionals think they can explain it. As Mondale's running mate, Geraldine Ferraro doesn't balance the ticket philosophically, being liberal, pro-union and all, but it may help that she is Catholic, urban and ethnic, though that might hurt the Southern strategy. A sort of Sunbelt-Frostbelt standoff, if you get the drift, complicated by the blue-collar factor. Of course, the gender gap is the key to everything: more women, more votes. Got it. But wasn't something else involved in Mondale's decision to propose a woman for Vice President of the United...