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Leaving the Capitol, Reagan posed on the Northeast Steps with the 1981 March of Dimes poster child, Missy Jablonski of St. Louis, sweeping the six-year-old up into his arms to the delight of a mob of professional and amateur photographers who filled the stairwell. Then he rode to the nearby glass-and-concrete headquarters of the Teamsters Union, the nation's largest and one of the rare labor organizations to back his candidacy...
...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...
Last of all, the northeast and midwest stands to gain little from impending escalation of defense spending. Congress has repeatedly refused to target procurement contracts, even of non-strategic goods, to areas of economic distress. While such programs would not significantly compromise the cost effectiveness of defense spending, Sunbelt representatives realize that equitable distribution of procurement contracts would direct billions of dollars of business from their regions...
...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...