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...RECENTLY PUBLICIZED trend of Northerners migrating to the "Sunbelt" and the election of a Southern President have sparked a new interest in the South. The flourishing of the New South is exemplified not only by Carter's image of an earthy moralizer, but also by city problems and a growing population. Northern preconceptions about a prejudiced Old South are rapidly disappearing...
...series must be seen against the state's background. Arizona remains part of the last American frontier that has not quite closed. The gun is still king, and justice is often meted out privately. As law-abiding citizens have flocked to the good life of the fabled Sunbelt, so too have mobsters. Mingling with the native criminals, they have combined the worst of both worlds: Joey Gallo in a Stetson. The rackets are flourishing, most visibly land fraud. Says Arizona's assertive attorney general, Bruce Babbitt: "We've been entranced by our own rhetoric about everyone...
...risen by almost half a million, to 2,270,000-the biggest percentage increase in the nation. This year alone, the population could jump another 5% as more and more Easterners settle in the state-fleeing the harshest winter they have ever known for the bounteous life of the Sunbelt...
...unbuckled Sunbelt look made a big hit last month at showings in frozen New York, if only by way of contrast to the hermetic cover-up that made the city look like one big Central Parka. But the summer collections stood, and preened, on their own merits. In a way, they are antifashion. Unstructured, untailored, seasonless and often sizeless, the ready-to-wear and mostly inexpensive California clothes are simple, sexy, fresh, feminine and flexible. They are made largely of natural materials like cottons, light wools and silks, and favor loose ties and drawstrings rather than zippers, buttons and belts...
...much by employing a part-time worker at $4,200 as it could by adding a full-timer at $8,400. Walter Heller, a member of the TIME Board of Economists, adds that the Ullman proposal would give disproportionate tax relief to companies in rapidly expanding areas like the Sunbelt but deny help to needy businesses in areas like New England. Carter's version of an employment tax credit, in contrast, would save money for all companies whose workers are covered by Social Security, while still tying the size of the saving to the number of workers employed...