Sun Belt & Go Along to Get Along (Sam Rayburn quotes?)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> Wikipedia seems widely off here. Sam Rayburn died in 1961, and "sun belt"
> became common about 1969. Could Rayburn have possibly coined the word?

Actually, Rayburn probably didn't coin the word, not because it originated
too late, but because it originated too early.  I posted citations back to
1920 here in August.

Fred


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