Word: snowbelt
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...birthdays, Valentine's Day, Easter (he?d already written "Easter Parade"), Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The framing song was "Happy Holiday," which has since been appropriated as an all-purpose year-end carol. At first, few liked Berlin's tune about sunbelt nostalgia for a snowbelt youth (the verse places the singer in "Beverly Hills, L.A."). A journalist friend told the composer that "White Christmas" wouldn?t be a hit because it was "too schmaltzy," and Berlin himself thought the movie's big hit would be the Valentine ballad "Be Careful, It's My Heart...
...such is the case. From the Snowbelt to the Sunbelt, an army of would-be Tarzans and Sheenas, cowboys and cowgirls are riding high in the saddle in their brawny and boxy four-wheelers. Once the choice of rough-riding macho men who used them for off-road hunting and fishing expeditions, jeeps are now favored by suburban squires, teenagers, retirees and women of all ages. Most are using the vehicles to explore the well-paved and not-so-wide-open spaces of the nation's cities and suburbs. "They're easy to spot in a parking lot," notes Phoebe...
...metropolitan areas will continue to grow most rapidly over the next 15 years. The ten large metropolitan centers (defined as those with 1 million or more people by the year 2000) whose population will increase the fastest will be in Florida, California, Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. Nevertheless, the Snowbelt-to-Sunbelt stampede is slowing. Says Lyle Spatz, of the U.S. Census Bureau: "It's leveling off and even shifting in the Northeast. New England has shifted its economy and attracted people." The future will remain less than cheery around the Great Lakes and in some parts of the Midwest...
...proposal to help the urban poor to migrate to the Sunbelt [Jan. 12] could be the Snowbelt's blessing in disguise. If Chairman William McGill's commission can create an efficient and economical enticement for all the poor of the Northeast to migrate to the Sunbelt, where the work is, perhaps the urban communities of the North can survive after...
Having lived in the Sunbelt and the Snowbelt, I think one has as much to offer as the other. If U.S. resources can't meet demands in the North, how can they in the South and West? It takes energy to air-condition as well as to heat. Not everybody can live in the South. Nor does everybody want to. What the North lacks in January, it makes up for in June...