In what ways has the federal government participated in the economic growth and development of the South and the West in the late twentieth century?
What will be an ideal response?
Both regions benefitted from infusion of government money for dam and irrigation projects during the New Deal, and later, and for defense industries and military bases during World War II. Cold War government spending on military bases, the aircraft industry and shipyards, and on the oil, chemical, and metal industries also brought billions of federal dollars into the South and West.
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