Word: sunbelt
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...concern for urban America." They drew up an expensive shopping list: more jobs in cities, more federal aid, emergency antirecession programs, low-interest loans for both local governments and private businesses. The Governors of seven Northeastern states, who argue that Washington is shortchanging them in favor of the Sunbelt states, were expected to meet and make some costly demands of their...
...born and raised in Clinton, N.C., the son of two professionals who happen to be black. I lived in New Jersey for 13 years. I regret my return to the Sunbelt...
...move to the Sunbelt is on! It appears that the rest of this country has discovered the South's faith in God and belief in the Judeo-Christian ethic...
WALKER PERCY, 60, poet and novelist: I can see the South easily becoming simply a part of the Sunbelt-maybe the heart of a Southern belt running all the way from Virginia around to Los Angeles. I can see it just emerging into another Texas, with wheeler-dealer politics, Lyndon Johnson and John Connally, with Billy James Hargis and Billy Graham...
Most of the economic growth of this country over the next 25 years is going to occur in the Sunbelt. As the South grows, we have an opportunity to avoid the mistakes in urban growth that the North has made. I realize that you will have people of different economic levels living apart-the urban trend in the North has resulted in white suburbs and black ghettoes. That isn't easy to avoid; it is a matter of making housing opportunities available without discrimination...