The importance of winter tourism is underscored in much of the nation's frost belt, where cities that lack ski resorts are cashing in on the popularity of snowmobiles.
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"If you look at some of the Frost Belt areas like New York and Chicago, international immigration is very important, " said Marc Perry, a demographer with the Census Bureau.
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However, migration to the Sun Belt from the Frost Belt resumed again, according to 2015 Census data estimates, with growing migration to the Sun Belt and out of the Frost Belt and California.
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However, migration to the Sun Belt from the Frost Belt resumed again, according to 2015 Census data estimates, with growing migration to the Sun Belt and out of the Frost Belt and California.
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A dozen years ago, Gail Tuzzolo did what Americans by the thousands are still doing every day-- she packed up herself and her business and migrated from the Frost Belt to the Sun Belt.
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Lingering effects from the Great Recession slowed down, and in some places even stopped, the migration from the Frost Belt to the Sun Belt, according to data tracking people's movements over the year from July 2012 2013.
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The portrait of America emerging from the 2000 census, which released the last of its state-by-state figures on Friday, is that of a more ethnically and racially diverse country, with fast-growing suburbs filling with new immigrants and a continuing migration from the Frost Belt to the Sun Belt.
