In other terms, West Virginia’s 2020 population size was 8.3% of Florida’s. As someone that grew up in Florida most of their life, I find that the culture has made a pronounced change since my childhood.
Yeah, yeah, air conditioning. Coal has also tanked. That’s kind of a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=peter+santenello+west+virginia
Watch some of that if you’re brave enough to learn about your fellow Americans. Or just call them all racists, because that’s easy and scores fake points.
In addition to air conditioning becoming widespread, Walt Disney World opened in 1971. There was very little in Orlando prior to that due to not being on the coast - it’s miserably hot and doesn’t get the afternoon breeze off the ocean like costal cities.
When did air conditioning become a thing?
1901, designed to lower humidity in a print shop to keep the moisture from affecting the paper. Then to textile mills and other manufacturing facilities.
I think it was installed in a residence in 1915 for the first time, then in 1931 the window unit was invented. They became available for cars in 1932, but the first factory units didn’t come out until 1939 from Packard.
If you don’t count only powered AC, passive air conditioning methods have existed as long as we’ve been building structures. There has been a big push towards these passive cooling methods again.
also when did the government start subsidizing wetlands bulldozing
The neolithic revolution?
Bingo
We’ll see how long that lasts for before most end up having to flee to other states. Another 10 years maybe?
