New West, new South, new region : the discovery of the Sunbelt / Carl Abbott -- The Sunbelt South : industrialization in regional, national, and international perspective / James C. Cobb -- The origins of the Sunbelt-Frostbelt struggle : defense spending and city building / Roger W. Lotchin -- Metropolitan politics in the American Sunbelt / Richard M. Bernard -- Politics and growth in Sunbelt cities / Amy Bridges -- Models of ethnic and racial politics in the urban Sunbelt South / Ronald H. Bayor -- New origins, new homeland, new region : American immigration and the emergence of the Sunbelt, 1955-1985 / Elliott Barkan -- Miami : new immigrant city / Raymond A. Mohl -- The end of the long hot summer : the air conditioner and Southern culture / Raymond Arsenault -- Searching for the Sunbelt / Bradley R. Rice -- Epilogue : the vanishing Sunbelt / David R. Goldfield and Howard N. Rabinowitz
