An exodus of african-americans from struggling industrial cities such as detroit and the growth of sunbelt states have pushed racial segregation in major u.s. metropolitan areas to its lowest level in more than a century , a new study said .
Many cities in the sunbelt , adds margaret simms of the urban institute , are suffering from what it calls " double trouble " , meaning a plunge both in property values and employment , with concomitant jumps in poverty .
Poor inner cities in the midwest and north-east still have higher overall poverty rates , but in recent years , notes elizabeth kneebone of the brookings institution , a think-tank , poverty has grown fastest in the suburbs , especially in the sunbelt .
The financial crisis made things worse , particularly in the once-booming sunbelt .
金融危机使境况恶化特别是在曾一度繁荣的阳光地带。
The sunbelt , in contrast , was home to eight of the ten states with the highest concentration of youth .
相比之下,西部阳光地带却成了年轻人的家园,在10个年轻人密集州中占到了八个州。
Like other sunbelt areas-las vegas , phoenix , and the florida coast-the atlanta suburbs got swept up in the building boom of the early and mid-2000s .