In the Sun Belt, though, rural counties largely kept moving to the right. This was especially true in Florida, where 9 in 10 rural counties moved toward the GOP across 2016 and 2020.

How pivotal Sun Belt counties voted in 2024. Last week, we began looking back at several of the key counties in Toss-up states that we flagged before the 2024 election to see what, if anything ...

Immigration was the biggest factor in population growth for many booming Sun Belt counties as well as for the agricultural Midwest, according to a Stateline analysis of new U.S. Census ...

The Sun Belt, once written off as doomed by the urbanist punditry, is clearly back. In percentage terms, Austin led the nation, with a population expansion of 1.7% from net domestic migration.

In 2011, Harris County in the Houston metro area, Dallas County in Dallas, Fulton County in Atlanta, and Miami-Dade County in Miami took in a net 35,000 people in domestic migration.

— In Nevada, Las Vegas and Reno predominate. Places to watch in the Sun Belt. A couple of weeks ago, we began our series examining some benchmark counties in our presidential Toss-up states ...

Eight of the 10 fastest-growing counties are in Sun Belt states; the exceptions are in the Des Moines suburbs in Iowa and in Williams County, N.D., where a fracking boom attracted more than 13,000 ...

In the aggressively adolescent Sun Belt, there's something new these days: its suburbs, like those of older cities to the north, are grappling with growing pains.

Historically cold counties in the Snow Belt are becoming less cold over time, and hot Sun Belt counties are having more extreme heat episodes than before. Brancaccio: ...