Did Air Conditioning Lead To The Rise Of A New South?

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Author John Steele Gordon looks at the role air conditioning played in the South becoming a political powerhouse — especially a Republican powerhouse. Thanks to AC and desegregation, Gordon writes, the South was able to develop. People wanted to live there — companies wanted to move there.

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• John Steele Gordon, author, “An Empire Of Wealth: The Epic History Of American Economic Power,” writes about AC in the Wall Street Journal