Americans have wanted to move to places where the weather fit their clothes, as the old saying goes, where you could live an athletic life year-round. |
During Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson said we can fight them there or fight them here, but no one believed it. This time, there's more fear about what happens next. |
It's a war only because we've got the rhetoric of wartime. |
Once the majority of Americans became middle class, once their jobs ceased to be manual jobs, then they began to look around and choose to live in a place, in part, because of the weather. |
The Sun Belt would not have become such a dynamic, urban, industrial region if it hadn't been for air conditioning. Before 1945, before the 1950s, the South was a pretty sleepy area, industrially. |