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...demographics changed: Americans in large numbers abandoned the Northeast for the South and Sunbelt. The Democrats seemed to become the party of the cities, the problems, the blacks, the Hispanics and welfare. An undercurrent of racism is down there in the shadows of the rightward trend. The suburbs, more affluent than the cities, are growing; so are the small towns of rural America. Those who fled the cities now have a stake, however small, that they want to hang on to, and yet their taxes are high, and rising. The Republicans' pitch that Democratic deficits are the cause...
Eckhardt has long tilted at the oil companies, fighting for continued price controls on some categories of oil and for a strong windfall-profits tax. This year these positions have come back to haunt him. Oil executives and many of the Sunbelt migrants to his district dislike Eckhardt's liberalism. But in east Houston, where most of his district's 30% blacks and Hispanics live, Eckhardt has strong backing from those who work in the huge refineries. As he said last week at a union hall while introducing Senator Edward Kennedy, who was on a Texas swing...
...come. Because of years of insufficient construction, the U.S. has developed an acute shortage of moderately priced housing. More and more members of the baby-boom generation are now moving into the prime home-buying age group. Divorce, single-person households and the great migration of people to the Sunbelt and the Northwest have placed further strains on the existing housing supply...
...network of eleven regional warehouses, located within a one-day drive of most stores, allowing K mart stores to keep inventories at a minimum, reducing a major source of debt. The distribution network also allows local managers to order merchandise independently. As a result, K mart's Sunbelt stores never get stuck with too many Snowbelt specialties, like ice hockey sticks...
...week's end the triple-digit temperatures that first appeared in the Sunbelt late in June had directly or indirectly caused the death of more than 1,000 people in a triangle of 20 states from Texas to New York and the Dakotas. Dallas, where temperatures have risen as high as 113°, has had 25 consecutive days of 100°-plus weather; Little Rock has had 17 such days. So serious has been the resulting human suffering that President Carter funneled $6.7 million in aid to the six hardest-hit states-Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas and Louisiana...