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Reagan touches key political bases in 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...
...shift disclosed by the 1980 census created 17 new seats in the South and West, mostly taken away from the Northeast and Midwest. That was once expected to help Republicans, but Democrats proved more adept at the fine art of gerrymandering, and so they won nine of the new Sunbelt districts. Regardless of party, however, the shift in the regional balance of power will inevitably affect the way the new House squints at the nation...