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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (358959)11/16/2007 5:03:10 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1576348
 
"Didn't the introduction of air conditioning in the 1930s make a big difference in the prospects for business in the South?"

It didn't hurt. But the 1930's weren't a big time for business investment. And the 1940's weren't much better. It started to change in the 1950's, but it was slow. For one, infrastructure needed to be developed. My father grew up not 30 miles from where I am now. But, I remember as kid that we had to drive down a lot of dirt roads to get to my grandparent's farm. They didn't have electricity until the late 1950's. And that was pretty common outside of the large cities.

And things didn't really start to change until the 1960's. With rising incomes, the whole hatred of the North started to vanish. By the 1970's it was generally save for Yankees to be out after sundown in much of the South...
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