Comments on: How the South was transformed into the Sunbelt http://southernnationalist.com/blog/2012/09/06/how-the-south-was-transformed-into-the-sunbelt/ Independence & Identity! Mon, 20 May 2013 01:59:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Michael http://southernnationalist.com/blog/2012/09/06/how-the-south-was-transformed-into-the-sunbelt/comment-page-1/#comment-20500 Michael Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:02:02 +0000 http://southernnationalist.com/blog/?p=24230#comment-20500 Missouri10, Haven’t thought of it that way. lol Now that you mention it though, Rhett and other Southerners of his era commonly referred to the South as ‘our sunny land.’

]]> By: Missouri10 http://southernnationalist.com/blog/2012/09/06/how-the-south-was-transformed-into-the-sunbelt/comment-page-1/#comment-20498 Missouri10 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:51:41 +0000 http://southernnationalist.com/blog/?p=24230#comment-20498 I wasn’t overly crazy about the name “Sun Belt” until I thought of it as a variation on the “Golden Circle”. “Sun” equals “Golden” and “Belt” equates to “Circle”. Kind of funny, eh?

As a side note: I just read Time Magazine’s August 6, 2012 edition referring to the South as the Sun Belt in one of their articles on gun control.

]]> By: Michael http://southernnationalist.com/blog/2012/09/06/how-the-south-was-transformed-into-the-sunbelt/comment-page-1/#comment-20486 Michael Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:49:38 +0000 http://southernnationalist.com/blog/?p=24230#comment-20486 DarthJ, Alabama has been hit less by these anti-Southern trends than many other Southern States. I felt that when I was there this summer.

]]> By: DarthJ http://southernnationalist.com/blog/2012/09/06/how-the-south-was-transformed-into-the-sunbelt/comment-page-1/#comment-20485 DarthJ Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:51:12 +0000 http://southernnationalist.com/blog/?p=24230#comment-20485 I’ve been all over Alabama and I can’t remember one business being named “Sunbelt.” Maybe we just lucked out.

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