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...journalists, the chances are good of spending time on a small-town daily at some point. There is, for instance, Senior Writer Lance Morrow, who wrote this week's cover story on the great American migration from the big cities to smaller cities, rural areas and the Sunbelt. As a high school student, Morrow spent summers in Danville, Pa., covering fires, fairs and Elks club meetings for the Danville News, the local daily. In expansive moments, his editor would send him out around the county to research a farm story. Like many Americans today, Morrow feels that rural living...
While cities struggle with their problems, the receiving areas of the Sunbelt and the countryside do need not some grand federal plan but a cooperative effort among citizens, business and local government to assure sensible and orderly growth. Without that, the shelf life of the new American life-style could wind up being roughly that of a Big Mac. Careful zoning will help, of course, along with a willingness to tax the people sufficiently to pay for necessary public services. As taxes rise, the flow of new migrants may decrease. A dilemma is that those rising taxes will place increased...
...will account for 55%-60% of the new manufacturing employment over the next year. One reason: more than half of all new plant construction and expansion has been going on in those areas instead of the populous North and East. Fantus Chairman Leonard Yaseen expects the industrialization of the Sunbelt to accelerate "because as the plants in the Central States and the Northeast become more and more antiquated, management will think twice before constructing facilities in those areas...
...STRUCTURAL changes have reshaped the economy since World War II: In relative terms, power on the domestic economic front has shifted to what historian Kirkpatrick Sale calls "the economic sovereigns of America's Southern rim, the 'sunbelt' that runs from Southern California, through Arizona and Texas, down to the Florida keys...
They are for the most part new-money people...whose fortunes have been made only in the postwar decades, mostly in new industries such as aerospace and defense contracting, in oil, natural gas and allied businesses, usually domestic rather than international, and in real-estate operations during the postwar sunbelt population boom...