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The Sun Belt is a region in the United States, includes the southern and southwestern states. There has been a significant demographic and economic shift to the Sun Belt in recent decades. Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas are the main Sun Belt states.

Since 1964, every elected President of the United States has come from a Sun Belt State. They are:

Lyndon B. Johnson (1964) -- Texas

Richard M. Nixon (1968, 1972) -- California

Jimmy Carter (1976) -- Georgia

Ronald Reagan (1980, 1984) -- California

George H. W. Bush (1988) -- Texas

Bill Clinton (1992, 1996) -- Arkansas

George W. Bush (2000, 2004) -- Texas

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