Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Goff grew up in the suburbs just outside West Philadelphia, a product of Southern-born parents who were the first in their families to transition from poverty to a solid middle-class existence...
...Southern Belle...
Dole was born Elizabeth M. Hanford in Salisbury, N.C. in August 1936, daughter of one of the small town's most prominent families. During her childhood she made the rounds of a well-born Southern woman: piano and riding lessons and debutante balls...
...only political science major in her entire class, Dole seemingly maintained the Southern belle mentality by being elected as the May Queen, an award for popularity and beauty...
...country (though that may get some folks thinking). We?re talking about the northward shift in European butterfly populations. A study published in Thursday?s issue of the journal Nature discovered that 22 out of 35 continental species that researchers tracked either had died out at the southern edges of their habitat or had extended their range northward, or both. The push to the north extended sometimes as far as 150 miles; one species abandoned Spain and spread to Estonia. Scientists interpreted the shift as yet another confirmation of global warming...