Word: northeast
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...economy already regionally lopsided, and compromise government's ability to deal with resulting social problems, either at the state or federal level. The vector of economic prosperity currently points south and west, toward the Sunbelt, and away from the Frostbelt and the traditionally prosperous regions of the northeast and midwest. This economic trend leaves in its wake poverty, unemployment and urban decay in proportions neither the federal government nor Frostbelt state governments can adequately deal with. Less government, whether by the design of conservatives or not, would amount to a neglect of federal social responsibilities in favor of increased disparity...
...Frostbelt's aging manufacturing base has decayed and suffered from foreigh competition. Between 1970 and 1978, the Frostbelt altogether lost over 400,000 manufacturing jobs without much slack taken up by new jobs in the service sector. As the Joint Economic Committee once stated, "the northeast and midwest contain the oldest, least efficient manufacturing facilities, which are the first closed as production is reduced." Large, mobile corporations abandon these plants in favor of newer Sunbelt facilities, located where labor and energy is cheap, the quality of life slow and easy, and golf courses green year round. For every manufacturing...
...party has been rusting and clunking along for years on only two or three cylinders. Unless they recover their partisan energies and intellectual vigor, the Democrats could enter a long historical passage of declining influence and relevance, becoming the political equivalent of some of the decaying cities of the Northeast, once flourishingly productive, the exuberant places where the modern Democratic Party originated...
...demographics changed: Americans in large numbers abandoned the Northeast for the South and Sunbelt. The Democrats seemed to become the party of the cities, the problems, the blacks, the Hispanics and welfare. An undercurrent of racism is down there in the shadows of the rightward trend. The suburbs, more affluent than the cities, are growing; so are the small towns of rural America. Those who fled the cities now have a stake, however small, that they want to hang on to, and yet their taxes are high, and rising. The Republicans' pitch that Democratic deficits are the cause...
...little behind the times, it was because they were looking to the future. Along with the residents often other towns in the Northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada, they were trying to cut their energy usage as part of a three-day conservation competition. The effort was sponsored by the Northeast International Committee on Energy, founded in 1978 by the six New England Governors and the premiers of Canada's five eastern provinces. In addition to Monterey, the American communites were Middlebury, Vt; Ellsworth, Me.; Plymouth, N.H.; Mansfield, Conn.; and Burrillville, R.I. From the north came stiff competition-frozen stiff...