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en companies began to decentralize, they left overcrowded and polluted Northeast areas and looked to the less populated wide open spaces of the Southwest. (p. 239.) Many of these areas were less unionized and the tax environment was more favorable than in the traditional industrial areas. People were willing to follow the companies not only because of job opportunities -- after decades of increasing congestion in the East, the wide open spaces with cleaner air and less noise, was increasingly appealing.

The combined forces of the three underlying trends created new job and lifestyle opportunities in the

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