Talk:Sun Belt

Metropolitan area is confused with combined statistical area. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.181.17.20 (talk) 19:20, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Ronald Reagan was from Illinois not California.

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Originally, yes, but California became his adopted home, and he was elected governor there twice.

Likewise the Bushes aren't from Texas, but it is their adopted home. --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 22:48, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

W Bush is from Texas. H.W. Bush is definitely a New Englander. He represented Connecticut and has strong ties to Maine.

W Bush isn't from Texas. He was born in Conn. Likewise, H. W. Bush is a New Englander from Mass.

Arkansas is not mentioned as being in the Sun Belt, yet Bill Clinton is included as having come from a Sun Belt state. (Arkansas probably has an arguable case for being in the Sun Belt, but it is neither mentioned in the article nor included on the map.))

Wilson wasn't the only president raised in a Sun Belt who held office prior to 1964 as Andrew Jackson was born and raised in South Carolina.

The Bush family moved to Texas when George W. was three years old. That qualifies him as being from Texas.

What?

How come Louisville, Kentucky be included in the sun belt while Nashville, Tennessee or Denver, Colorado get excluded? If any no one can explain this, I'll delete the Louisville link.

I removed it. If nothing else, it is very far from the zone shown on the map. Pfly 10:15, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

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"wintry"??? 152.78.254.243 02:45, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Carson City?

How does Carson City fit into the Sun Belt? Corvus cornix_talk 21:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Oppressive heat?

>> ... air conditioning has made it easier for people to deal with the oppressive heat that grips the region during the summertime

Give me a break! Some of us enjoy the heat. 64.221.15.66 (talk) 21:13, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Also, over the past several decades, air conditioning has made it easier for people to deal with the heat in portions of the region during the summertime.

I fully understand and agree with your point, and I'm happy to see that the POV "oppressive" has apparently been removed. But the current wording, with its "portions of the region," seems misleading to me. Is there any part of the Sun Belt where there isn't any hot weather in the summer, or where air conditioning hasn't been adopted (by many people, though not all) to help deal with it? Even in the cooler high-elevation Sun Belt cities like Flagstaff, the temperature often gets into the '90s in the hottest part of the summer. It apparently hit 103F there last week, if the chart on Weather Underground is to be believed. I'd propose a wording like "...to deal with the heat in the region's typically hot summers." 65.213.77.129 (talk) 19:48, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

To address the question, although most areas of the Belt are very warm in the summer, the SF Bay Area is pretty cool in the summertime (often darn cold) and air conditioning is far from universal in that area. Even down toward LA air conditioning is not considered an absolute necessity. Obviously this is unique to the Pacific coast but still it is the Sun Belt (and though geographically small that region represents a huge portion of the Sun Belt population).

--Mcorazao (talk) 14:20, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

European sunbelt

http://www.solarthermalworld.org/node/757 Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Cyprus. -Pedro (talk) 22:24, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

List: Major cities within the Sun Belt

User 208.81.184.4 recently reverted the list of cities from a compact table back to a list. Not that it matters a whole lot but I think the table is better simply because the list is long with lots of white space and scrolling down is a nuissance. It is frankly debatable whether listing out so many cities has real value but if this is going to be kept I think making it more compact is worthwhile.

Anyway, I'm not going to get into an edit war over it but if somebody else agrees with me feel free to put the table back in the way I had it. --Mcorazao (talk) 14:25, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Transient

Why doesn't the article mention that the sunbelt is transient..South Bay (talk) 03:18, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

San Francisco

Sure the winters are mild, but I wouldn't consider it a true sun-belt city since the summers there are so abnormally cool.