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The Sunbelt South: Old Times Forgotten

Bruce J. Schulman,Raymond A. Mohl,Richard K. Scher-1993-06-01-Reviews in American History
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During 1970s, white South at long last accepted defeat in Civil War. In wake of Civil Rights Revolution and postwar economic boom, region no longer clung to traditional southern way of life. But like Germany and Japan after World War II, this loser reaped spoils of victory. Sunbelt South prospered while old industrial heartland faced seemingly catastrophic decline. Regional conflict once again captured national attention; Business Week even ran cover story on The Second War Between States.1 Leaders of Frostbelt, manufacturing regions of Northeast and Middle West, complained of favoritism for South in distribution of federal dollars. They blamed this imbalance for southwesterly migration of people, jobs, and money in 1960s and 1970s. Launching Frostbelt counteroffensive, New York governor Hugh Carey warned that if federal spending was not redirected northward and decline of Frostbelt reversed, it would become a great national museum where tourists would see industrial plants as artifact

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During 1970s, white South at long last accepted defeat in Civil War. In wake of Civil Rights Revolution and postwar economic boom, region no longer clung to traditional southern way of life. But like Germany and Japan after World War II, this loser reaped spoils of victory. Sunbelt South prospered while old industrial heartland faced seemingly catastrophic decline. Regional conflict once again captured national attention; Business Week even ran cover story on The Second War Between States.1 Leaders of Frostbelt, manufacturing regions of Northeast and Middle West, complained of favoritism for South in distribution of federal dollars. They blamed this imbalance for southwesterly migration of people, jobs, and money in 1960s and 1970s. Launching Frostbelt counteroffensive, New York governor Hugh Carey warned that if federal spending was not redirected northward and decline of Frostbelt reversed, it would become a great national museum where tourists would see industrial plants as artifact

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