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Everyone getting AC allowed the southwest US to populate

• azinman2 7y ago
  Interesting. Can you say more about that? People have lived in hot environments like Arabia for centuries.
• devchix 7y ago
  99% Invisible made the argument that it also changed the US electoral map. "And the ubiquity of AC has had a serious impact on how and maybe most profoundly where we live. Hot places like Arizona and Florida saw huge influxes of residents. A mass migration to the so-called “Sunbelt” changed the political map, too, as electoral college seats moved with citizens. And since a lot of these new southward migrants were conservative retirees, they voted Republican, forming a key target demographic in Reagan’s election in 1980." https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thermal-delight/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thermal-delight/