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I wonder if the accelerating trend towards higher Southern populations in the 1900s was brought on by the invention and development of home air conditioning. I

• gumby 12y ago
  Indeed, it is will known that air conditioning enabled the southern population to rise: Discussion for the US south (and some discussion of the social consequences of the technology): http://www.independentmail.com/news/2007/jun/24/air-conditioning-its-made-south-what-it/ http://www.independentmail.com/news/2007/jun/24/air-conditio... Discussion more generally for the world, and also some side effects: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/07/07/how-air-conditioning-transformed-the-u-s-economy/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/07/07/h...