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Although it is likely that Cuomo would appeal to voters in the urban areas of the Northeast and Midwest, traditional Democratic power bases, both his style and his message may play less well in the South and the Sunbelt, regions that are critical if the party hopes to regain the presidency. Cuomo is still largely unknown in the South and West, to party activists as well as voters...
...Sambo's. From 1950 to 1960, years of heedless American growth, cars multiplied and the great fast-food empires were born: McDonald's, Tastee Freez, Jack-in-the-Box, Burger King, Dunkin' Donuts, Mister Donut, Pizza Hut, Burger Chef. The architecture that resulted was a sort of Sunbelt peasant modernism, simple constructivist cartoons in steel and glass, designed to catch the attention at highway speeds. Usually, as Langdon says, it was a case of "form faking function." Cosmetic A-frames were slapped onto plain boxes; McDonald's golden arches never supported anything. The "modernism" of the fast-food stands...
Houston, once proclaimed to be the shining buckle of the Sunbelt, has particularly suffered from the pervasive effects of the oil slump. Some 16,600 mortgages were foreclosed last year, more than the previous two years combined, and the pace is quickening. February brought nearly 3,000 foreclosures. Fully 29% of the city's office space sits empty...
...well. Many of the ballyhooed 1970s-era programs to extract petroleum from oil shale and tar sands have been mothballed because they cost too much to operate. The hundreds of mom-and-pop solar-power companies that sprang up in the past decade have mostly folded, even in the Sunbelt. Says Susan deWitt, executive director for the California Solar Energy Industries Association: "Our customers no longer feel the urgency to pursue renewable energy." The U.S. is not alone in that regard. Brazil's innovative alcohol-fuel program will be cut back 13% this year...
Last week Wallace's wheelchair was pushed into the old state house of representatives chamber. Fighting tears, Wallace spoke in a thin, pained voice. He talked about the Wallace era, about the long transit that Alabama made from the Depression to the Sunbelt. Wallace glancingly compared himself to Peter the Great and the apostle Paul. He announced that, at age 66, he will not run again for Governor. The long drama of his career will end. And so, symbolically, will...