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THE SUN BELT-SNOW BELT: A CASE OF SLOPPY REGIONALIZING

1979; Routledge; Volume: 31; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.0033-0124.1979.00066.x

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Clyde E. Browning, Wil Gesler,

Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis

The Sun Belt has become a part of the American vocabulary without a careful examination of its validity as a region. This analysis, using a variety of techniques and variables taken from the topics of federal involvement, economic well-being, and population change, concludes that the Sun Belt does not emerge as a distinct and homogeneous region. The Snow Belt would be better expressed as the Core (the old Manufacturing Belt).