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Only modern technology could have turned this former patch of desert into one of the world’s most flourishing metropolises.
At the turn of the 19th century Los Angeles and Salt Lake City were among the burgeoning metropolises of the new American West.
(A 1974 Supreme Court ruling exempted suburban school districts from busing, meaning few metropolises experienced wholesale integration Charlotte-style.)
The migration of franchises, meanwhile, breaks the hearts of old fans and rips the hearts out of cities--generally northern industrial cities--that can't afford to compete against the new metropolises of the Sunbelt.