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...doomsday headlines (SUNBELT MOVING NORTH, WARMING SPELLS DISASTER) were unduly alarmist, and much of the information was well known to scientists. But last week a media brouhaha was triggered by new studies from the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Academy of Sciences. Both groups agreed on a startling prognosis: the earth is warming up from all the carbon dioxide being spilled into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels, and worse, the first effects of the climatic changes could be felt as early as the 1990s...
This demographic rejiggering, if it does occur, portends not merely more Americans with lush flower gardens and good suntans: the balance of political and economic power in the U.S. should continue tipping south and west, and state and local governments in the Sunbelt will have to scramble to keep up with millions of new constituents. It seems certain that the governments will be hard pressed by the new or expanded demographic bulges to provide new or expanded services, just as states that lose people will have difficulty with shrinking tax bases and reduced federal...
Because seats in the House of Representatives are redistributed every decade to reflect population shifts, the political consequences should be significant. New York might lose eight or more of its House seats, and Pennsylvania and Ohio several apiece. Conversely, the Sunbelt's numerical clout on Capitol Hill will surely swell. California might be assigned an additional four seats in Congress, Texas seven more, and Florida's delegation could expand from...
...York is also being challenged by a host of new American fashion centers. Other big cities, many in the Sunbelt, have set up markets that are siphoning off a growing share of sales. So while New York was still coping with the aftereffects of the blackout last week, Atlanta was celebrating. The Atlanta Apparel Mart is the first stop after New York on the August fashion tour for many women's wear manufacturers, and customers were placing orders in Atlanta that they could not make in New York. Said Bob Edelstein, regional sales director for Crazy Horse, a sportswear...
Many people, particularly in parts of the Sunbelt, still like drive-ins for most of the old reasons. On a good night, families bring lawn chairs to make themselves comfortable; affectionate teen-agers still cause the windows to steam up; and good ole boys still load up their pickups with coolers of beer. Paul Bierle, a Southern California truck driver, brags that he has not patronized an indoor theater for ten years. "You can't smoke in walk-ins," he says. "You can't put your feet up, and you can't talk." Nor, he might have...