sun belt

The southern and southwestern United States, as in Retirees have been moving to the sun belt for years. It is so called for its warm climate. [Mid-1900s]

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It’s emblematic of the Sun Belt boom that has shifted the nation’s population geography south, into a string of fast-growing cities from Orlando to Phoenix.

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Forsyth County may be emblematic of the Sun Belt in another way: It has soured on growth.

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“Sun Belt residents are starting to behave and stop development the way Bostonians did in the ’80s and ’90s,” Gyourko hypothesized.

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From the 1970s to the 2000s, Sun Belt cities built on a massive scale—hundreds of thousands of new homes each decade.

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Sun Belt cities recorded the fastest percentage growth, but post-industrial cities like Philly, Detroit, and Newark also added thousands of people.

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