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...massive migration into the Sunbelt [March 15] is a chilling phenomenon. You say, "Air conditioning has made the long, hot summers bearable." What happens when the power goes off -permanently...
Could a man from the New York metropolitan area meet a woman in a Sunbelt state and find the good life in Minnesota...
Some political analysts believe that the growth of population and economic power in the South and Southwest portends a dominance of Sunbelt conservatism in the nation. One proponent of the theory is Social Historian Kirkpatrick Sale, author of Power Shift, The Rise of the Southern Rim and Its Challenge to the Eastern Establishment. Sale argues that the Sunbelt is becoming the increasingly influential repository of "the three Rs"-rightism, racism and repression...
That is an especially simplistic-and insulting-theory of regional determinism. Deservedly, the Sunbelt is making itself heard more on the national scene. Half of the declared presidential candidates are from the Sunbelt, but they range across the political spectrum from conservative to moderate to very liberal: California's Ronald Reagan, Alabama's George Wallace, Georgia's Jimmy Carter, Arizona's Morris Udall, Oklahoma's Fred Harris and, until they dropped out, Texas' Lloyd Bentsen and North Carolina's Terry Sanford. After the 1980 census, if the current population shifts continue, the states...
Whatever economic advantages they bring, however, the newcomers sometimes threaten to perpetuate in new territory many of the offenses of urban sprawl around the big cities. Especially in many communities of the Sunbelt, oldtimers have grown bitterly aware that the massive invasions have overloaded public services, overwhelmed police and fire departments, water supplies and sewage systems...