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Even before the staggering influx of foreign settlers, L.A. was a big, sprawling, hard-to-fathom place. It was the first great Sunbelt city, stretched and shaped by the automobile into a half urban, half suburban archipelago. Says Mark Pisano, executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments: "There has never been one huge predominant city. There have been conglomerations." Most of what commonly passes for L.A. lies inside the generous boundaries (4,083 sq. mi.) of Los Angeles County. The county, bigger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, contains lots of undeveloped, unincorporated scrubland as well...
...came out in especially bitter form in Chicago, where Democrat Harold Washington almost lost his party the mayoralty for the first time in five decades, simply because he was Black. And even the potential recovery on the horizon will not be for everyone, as the mass migration to the Sunbelt continues, while the cities of the industrial Northeast and Midwest are left to crumble in its trail...
...ends of the Sunbelt last week, conventions of both the New Economy and the Old Economy took place. In Anaheim, Calif., some 110,000 people paid up to $125 each to examine the wares of 650 firms at the National Computer Conference. At the same time in Dallas, nearly 2,500 delegates attended the United Auto Workers meeting that elected a new union president. TIME Correspondent Dick Thompson was in Anaheim, and Correspondent Barbara Dolan was in Dallas. Their reports...
...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...
...President's San Antonio visit was his second to Texas in seven days. White House aides explained Reagan's continuing interest in the Lone Star State by calling it one of the "big three," meaning that Texas, along with California and Florida, are the three Sunbelt states that Reagan must carry to win in 1984. Hispanic voters are a crucial bloc in all three states; thus Reagan was happy to be in San Antonio to help commemorate Mexico's 1862 defeat of occupying French forces...