Word: sunbelt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan touches key political bases in the Sunbelt...
...Ronald Reagan, the occasion was a "homecoming." To others, it looked like an exploratory mission on the 1984 presidential campaign trail. Either way, the President was clearly in his political element last week, as he escaped the legislative infighting of Washington for a two-day foray into the Sunbelt...
Industry and business can proceed in a fluorescent seasonlessness. Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68° all year. Air conditioning is one of the serious accomplishments of the 20th century. It produced the Sunbelt. The enclosed suburban shopping mall prefigures those cities of the future that will be entirely domed, like a pheasant under glass. No seasonal variations need be endured...
ACCORDING TO the U.S. Conference of Mayors, about two million Americans have recently lost their jobs and can't afford to keep their homes. Most of this desperate legion has gone south and west, searching for jobs in what they have been told is a booming Sunbelt. But the recession--which sent unemployment soaring from 8.6 percent to 10.8 percent in 1982 alone--has hit down south as well. So the homeless make do as best they can--in the sprawling "Tent City" outside of Houston, under freeway passes in Southern California, in overcrowded church-run shelters. They are like...
...they are also on the map. Three weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal described the scene in a front-page article on the migration of the Northern unemployed to the Sunbelt. Ever since, Tent City's residents, both entertained and irritated, have seen a steady procession of reporters and cameramen pursuing footage and recession-style quotes. The three national TV networks carried stories. "We've had so many reporters out here," says J.D. Dunn, an unemployed construction superintendent from Livingston, Texas, who says he has just landed a job servicing local sewaging plants, "we just...