8. What changes did the population shift to the Sunbelt cause in the United States? Urbanites in the Northeast and Midwest lost political power. Urbanites in the Northeast and Midwest faced water shortages. Mexican Americans moved to the Midwest. Mexican Americans moved to rural areas.

Urbanites in the Northeast and Midwest lost political power.

Explanation:

The term Sun Belt refers to the area in the United States that extends from Florida to California throughout the country's Southern and Southwestern portions. Part of the region 's development was a direct result of growing agriculture and the earlier green revolution that introduced technological advances for farming and attractive region for new types of businesses and industries. Because of economic prosperity and population growth, the area became a new center stage of political power.

islamic religious leaders have traditionally been people who, as part of the clerisy, mosque, or government, performed a prominent role within their community or nation. however, in the modern contexts of muslims minorities in non-muslim countries as well as secularised muslim states like turkey, indonesia and bangladesh, religious leadership may take a variety of non-formal shapes.

compared to religious leaders/clerics of the other abrahamic faiths, islamic clergy are said to resemble rabbis and not priests. unlike catholic priests they do not "serve as intermediaries between mankind and god",[1] have "process of ordination",[2] or "sacramental functions",[1] but instead serve as "exemplars, teachers, judges, and community leaders," providing religious rules to the pious on "even the most minor and private" matters.[1]