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Republicans will now govern the Sunbelt's three largest states: California, Texas and Florida. For the first time since Reconstruction, Alabama will have a Republican Governor, and for only the second time in this century, a Republican will lead South Carolina. The G.O.P. captured governorships being vacated by Democrats in Maine, Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico. In Wisconsin, Republican Challenger Tommy Thompson ousted incumbent Democrat Anthony Earl. Democrats managed to win G.O.P.-held governorships in just three states: Oregon, Tennessee and Pennsylvania...
Before energy prices collapsed, the conventional wisdom held that America's economy was being split along have and have-not lines: a prosperous Sunbelt and a rusting Frostbelt. Now, however, there is talk about a different sort of "two Americas." In the new version, the haves are the high-tech industries and financial-service firms stretching from New Hampshire down the Eastern seaboard and from California's Silicon Valley down to Orange County; the have-nots include the farmers, energy producers and heavy manufacturers in between. The split that some see emerging counterposes booming coasts against a problem-plagued heartland...
...sunshine. In 1982 Avi Ruimi and Avi Fattal, two immigrants from Israel, introduced the product in Los Angeles, calling it the Auto Shade. Sales began to take off last year, mostly in California. Now Ruimi and Fattal have lined up distributors in 25 states, concentrated, of course, in the Sunbelt...
During a decade of tremendous growth, Sunbelt cities attracted millions of people from the depressed urban centers of the North. All the ills of urban ghettos went with the newcomers, and many Southern cities, with their underclass populations suddenly exploding, became ripe environments for gangs to develop and flourish...
Location is as important to detective fiction as it is to the real estate business. The glitz centers of the Sunbelt offer the irresistible drama of drug traffic played against a background of pastel, stucco and palm fronds. Joseph Hansen (Fadeout, A Smile in His Lifetime, Gravedigger) offers an alternative to the macho, down-at-the-heels stereotype. He is David Brandstetter, a Southern California insurance investigator who is affluent, well dressed and homosexual. This subgenre is bicoastal; see George Baxt's novels, beginning with A Queer Kind of Death. The protagonist is a gay New York City police detective...