the Sunbelt

The term can also be used to mean anything that has the effect of making costs higher in areas like the Sunbelt.

Most new jobs, two out of three, were created in the Sunbelt or western states between 1968 and 1978.

Eight years ago, only a few relocated to the Sunbelt.

Visitors should reconcile themselves to being in the Sunbelt and, if possible, rent a car.

The Sunbelt migration myth is based on some historical reality, however.

Many of the hotel guests have fled in terror, especially those from the Sunbelt region.

What's worse, power has tilted toward the Sunbelt states.

"In the Sunbelt states, they can't build them fast enough.

"Except the Sunbelt would be a problem," she said.

That was a key factor in the Sunbelt boom.

But with the 1970's exodus to the Sunbelt, the city declined.

Like most areas in the sunbelt, the region has added considerably to its population, an 18.4% increase since 2000.

The Sunbelt boom did not occur at the expense of the North.

Much of the nation's population growth in the 1970s, about 65 percent, was in the Sunbelt.

It is especially weak in the Sunbelt and border states, for example, where it started its expansion much later.

In addition, student enrollment is on the rise, particularly in the Sunbelt and areas with high immigration.

There's no doubt that the balance has changed, the sunbelt experiment has had it's day.

In the postwar decades the lion's share of new American business and jobs has gone to the Sunbelt.

Like many other people who move to the Sunbelt, they are moving because better economic opportunities beckon from the South.

Not easy to find in the Sunbelt.

Both our fathers moved to the Sunbelt, his to Florida, mine to California.

Later the company entered California and the rest of the Sunbelt, reaching Florida in 1974.

The introduction of residential air conditioning in the 1920s helped start the great migration to the Sunbelt.

A higher minimum would make it harder for the Sunbelt to woo jobs with rock-bottom wages.

"I came here, having lived my entire life in the Sunbelt and hearing how awful New York is," he said.