Sun Belt leaders, while acknowledging the problem, scoff at the idea of companies choosing the Midwest instead.
Earlier in the day, No. 15 seed Florida Gulf Coast stunned second-seeded Georgetown, perhaps emboldening the Sun Belt champions.
And like it or not, the Sun Belt has the cheapest solar energy in the world in vast quantities.
The housing bust and the recession have slowed migration to fast-growing states in the Sun Belt and the West.
The most recent numbers, covering July 2011 to July 2012, also reveal some subtle changes in the Sun Belt pecking order.
Cyprien was a standout in the Sun Belt Conference and really solidified his stock with an excellent performance in the Senior Bowl.
In hard hit markets, particularly in Sun Belt states like Arizona, Nevada, California and Florida, domestic and foreign investors have been even more prevalent.
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The Owls enter on an 11-game winning streak, and they claimed their first Sun Belt tournament title and eighth NCAA tournament berth in Division I.
According to Stoll, this reflects a consistent trend of migration from the Frost Belt to the Sun Belt states based on a combination of causes.
The Sun Belt receives the lion's share of this energy-rich sunlight.
Seven years later, Feaster was lifting a Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning and the team he built put the Sun Belt franchise on the map.
But drought has gripped the Sun Belt in recent years, and federal scientists predict recurrent periods similar to the 1930s Dust Bowl if climate change models prove accurate.
Football is not basketball, and on no day will the winner of the MAC or Sun Belt conference knock off Auburn or Ohio State in a first-round game.
That means the Mountain West, Sun Belt, Conference USA, the Mid-American and Western Athletic conferences must rank in the top 12 of the BCS poll to get the automatic bid.
Certainly sustained economic growth, low density and more affordable housing all clearly continue to push the center of population gravity toward certain Sun Belt cities, primarily in the Southeast and Texas.
Like so many other senior citizens, he spends his days at a retirement village in a Sun Belt state, keeping himself busy with painting and reflecting on a long and successful career.
In a sharp reversal of the 1930s, Texas and the Sun Belt have supplanted the Golden State as a magnet for jobs and people, while California has become America's leading labor exporter.
Middle Tennessee lost in the semifinals of the Sun Belt Conference tournament after winning the regular season title, which in previous years might have been enough to knock them out of the NCAAs.
Regions experiencing the fastest senior -- age 65 and older -- growth are in the Sun Belt, which stretches from Western states such as California and Arizona east to Florida, according to the report.
According to the report, foreclosures tend to be most common in "Rust Belt" states such as Michigan, Ohio and Indiana and in the "Sun Belt, " which includes California, Arizona and Florida--but for very different reasons.
His vision includes making the power-hungry Sun Belt city into a leader in the new energy economy through initiatives like the largest municipally owned mega solar project and the Decade of Downtown inner-city revitalization program.
Finally we can expect immigrants, particularly from Asia, to continue to seek out housing bargains and new opportunities primarily in the Sun Belt states, as our recent study of changing Asian settlement patterns revealed.
While TREC's plan is nowhere near becoming a reality, it seems inevitable that, in one form or another, someone will try to capitalize on the vast solar energy resources available in the sun-soaked countries of the Sun Belt.
Sitting in the center of the so-called Sun Belt, the country is part of a vast, rainless region reaching from the western edge of North Africa to the eastern edge of Central Asia that boasts the best solar energy resources on Earth.
In the Sun Belt, a surge in population in recent years drove up housing prices, which fell dramatically when the housing market slowed--leaving subprime borrowers in the lurch when they try to refinance before the "teaser rates" expire on their adjustable-rate mortgages.
Migration has slowed from a high of nearly 2 million annually in 2006 to less than 800, 000 last year, but the most recent numbers show that the Sun Belt states, though chastened by the recession, are far from dead, as often alleged.
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Mr. STERN: So a few weeks after the Pluto encounter when we've chosen our target, we'll fire the engines of the spacecraft, but we'll have to fly a distance something like from here to the sun or twice that far to reach these Kuiper Belt objects.
This would make sense if short-period comets started off in the Kuiper belt and were nudged into closer orbits around the sun by the gravity of the most distant of the giant planets, Neptune.
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