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Until now Democrats have counterbalanced their inability to elect a President by winning a majority in the Congress and in statehouses, but with elections in three Sunbelt states in jeopardy, they run the risk of losing that fig leaf of respectability. For sheer survival, Democrats should try to join the grownups' table and put an end to their days of sibling rivalry. In Florida some party elders, torn between their early commitment to Nelson and a desire to get behind Chiles, are hoping Nelson will drop out in time to run for re-election to his House seat. The deadline...
...does San Diego cede them so much prominence? One theory is that in the Sunbelt perhaps more than other places, power is there for the taking. Says San Diego Tribune editor Neil Morgan, an insightful observer of the city: "Relatively few people really want positions of leadership here. They came here for the climate, for opportunity, for all those beautiful beaches -- not to assume responsibility...
...felt the pinch more keenly than heating-oil customers. During the brutal cold snap last month, when temperatures hovered in the single digits even in parts of the Sunbelt, fuel oil was in such demand that some distributors ran dry. The clamor for supply pushed prices up as high as $1.50 per gal., a 50% increase in one month...
...Arctic freeze that blasted across the U.S. last week pushed its chilly talons deep into the national economy. How far, farmers and commodities investors from Florida to Chicago are still trying to figure out. Some of the effects were as obvious as the icicles hanging from Sunbelt citrus fruit; others, like increased demand for energy supplies and bottlenecks in heating- fuel distribution, were harder to gauge. U.S. consumers, however, were fairly certain they could count on higher costs for food and fuel this winter...
Thanks to the new arrivals, the Seattle area is growing as fast as a Sunbelt mecca. In the past year, Washington has gained 100,000 people, most in the twelve-county Puget Sound Basin. A survey by Seattle demographer Laurie McCutcheon for the Puget Power Co. showed that in 1988 the fastest-growing area, suburban King County to the east of Seattle, received 12,700 new households from out of state, 22% of them from California...