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Redistricting is another factor that should work to the Republicans' advantage. On the basis of the 1980 census, many Democratic strongholds in the industrial Midwest and Northeast lost House seats to more conservative Sunbelt states. "Redistricting had to break our way," says Republican Congressional Campaign Committee Director Nancy Sinnot, although she admits that shrewd gerrymandering by Democratic state legislatures cut down on potential G.O.P. gains. Republicans have been active and successful in recruiting strong candidates for the 17 new districts in the South and West. This year there are 57 districts where no incumbent is running. "Where...
...lost weight and grew muscles while the home audience watched: "Now you can buy $50,000 worth of the no-makeup look." That look is an increasingly profitable part of the clothing industry: Danskin, leading manufacturer of tights and leotards, does about $100 million in sales annually. In the Sunbelt, where warm weather discourages women from buying next season's Paris original, jock chic is rampant. With men and women flaunting tanned, exercised bodies, the fashion is sportswear: headbands, tank tops, jogging shorts and running shoes. In offices and at informal dinner parties, the high-casual look has become acceptable...
...response to your story about water-poor states tapping the Great Lakes [Aug. 2], I say the Sunbelt can take the people out of the Great Lakes region, but it will never take our water without a fight...
Thus it is hardly surprising that this liquid treasure is being eyed covetously by those less richly endowed, who live in what Michigan Governor William Milliken scornfully dubs the "parch-belt": the water-poor states of the West and the Sunbelt. Milliken and other Great Lakes Governors fear that as the need for water grows in these areas during the coming decade, there will develop a prodigious national thirst for Great Lakes water. Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus goes so far as to predict that Great Lakes states, along with Ontario, could become "the OPEC of water...
...from the tax cut. This is especially true in the industrial states of the Midwest, where local governments are particularly hard pressed for revenue. Their once sturdy tax bases, proudly rooted in steel, autos, coal and muscle, have been eroded by the migration of people and companies to the Sunbelt, and by competition from more cost-efficient manufacturing operations in Japan and Europe. Most of them are simply running out of new sources of revenue and have to keep putting higher and higher taxes on the people and companies that remain...