Word: sunbelt
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...Ridiculous!" scoffed Jake Godbold, mayor of Jacksonville. "Idiocy!" exclaimed Robert McCabe, president of Detroit Renaissance, the city's urban revitalization organization. For once, the contentious spokesmen for the Snowbelt and the Sunbelt were agreed on something: they were outraged by the draft of a presidential report on urban policy that was leaked to the press last week in an obvious attempt to discredit it. Probably the most controversial of a package of proposals to be presented to President Carter on Jan. 16 by the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties, the report calls...
...traditional big Northern city has outlived its usefulness. Contemporary trends in the economy have rendered it largely obsolete. Because of revolutionary changes in production and communications, there is no need for industries to huddle together in a single congested setting. They have dispersed to the suburbs and the Sunbelt, leaving behind a much altered and diminished city...
...losing federal dollars for their hard-pressed communities, Northern mayors charged that the report was yet another example of federal bias against their region. It is their citizens' taxes, they argued, that helped build the military installations and technological institutions that have contributed to the boom in the Sunbelt. Complained McCabe: "It's as if we should be Arabs and fold up our tents to move South." Protested Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich: "We're dealing with human beings, not checkers...
Meanwhile, Sunbelt residents envisioned a second Yankee march through the South: hordes of the poor descending from the slums of the North. Fumed Jake Godbold: "The report seems to be saying, 'Let's pack them all up in buses and ship them down to the Sunbelt like refugees...
...Treasury Secretary-designate Donald Regan; William Casey, who will head the CIA; and Transportation Secretary-designate Drew Lewis. Two longtime California friends of Reagan's fill out the group: Caspar Weinberger, chosen as Secretary of Defense, and William French Smith, Attorney General-designate. Even they are not typical Sunbelt hardliners; in fact, their selections reinforce a surprisingly strong Ivy League cast in Reagan's official family...