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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?

...violence, theft, and trade" that characterized Coahuila's society during much of the nineteenth century (63–68).4See James F. Brooks, Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (Chapel...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...the living exponents, and certainly still the most active, of a truly wonderful blues tradition that is unique to the southwest region of Georgia. But, unusually, not only is she...

Whiskey and Geography

...Wood, Jr., From Ulster to Carolina: The Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina (Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1998), 33. Corn...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...band of states that stretches westward from the former Confederacy through the southwest to southern California. From L.B.J. to George W. Bush, every president has come from one of these...