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Tracking political trends has been Phillips' obsession since he was in his teens. "I was already a voting-patterns nut in high school," he recalls. His senior thesis at Colgate in 1961 documented the shift in Republican support away from the Northeast and into the Sunbelt (which term he coined). Phillips went on to Harvard Law School and then onto the staff of Paul Fino, a Republican Congressman. From there, he joined the Nixon presidential campaign and, after Nixon's victory, the staff of Attorney General John Mitchell. "Because of my book, though," he says, "I was too controversial...
Another problem -- for Republicans as well as Democrats -- is that the old "Solid South" has begun to lose some of its solidity. As more and more Northerners have moved to the Sunbelt in search of jobs, warmer winters, cleaner air and affordable suburbs, and as telecommunications have bound the nation closer together, the region has become more diverse, its citizens more cosmopolitan...
When Tamey and Bobby set out last spring for the prosperous Sunbelt city, they hoped they could make a new life for their family. Though Bobby found a job at a local cafeteria, they lost their place to live and soon were out on the street. For a while they slept in a parking lot in their 1978 Buick LeSabre, until the police shooed them away. Then they spent some nights in Park Road Park, sneaking in about midnight after the park ranger left and departing by dawn before he returned. They hid blankets and pillows in the bushes...
...others are now vying with California. Sunbelt states like Texas and Florida already have top-flight sports systems at the high school and university levels. Recent research supporting the benefits of high-altitude training will continue to attract athletes to mountainous states like Colorado and Utah...
...state of Minnesota shut an unemployment- claims office where she had been a clerk for nearly 15 years. The double whammy has forced their son Marley Jr. to drop out of college and the Kendalls to move from their cherished lakeside home near the town of Ely to the Sunbelt to look for jobs. The prospect of uprooting is especially painful, Frances says, "when you've worked all your life and you want something for your later years...