History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1834 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Sunbelt
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The idea
During the war, Digital History records, Washington invested almost nine billion dollars in the South and seventy billion in the western states, laying the ground for the Sunbelt.
In practice
Defence plants, shipyards and refineries rising across the South, and over half the western money flowing to California.
Where people slip
In nineteen fifty, Digital History notes, California was the size of Pennsylvania.
Your place on the trail
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