No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...them in Columbia and West Columbia were tied to an inhospitable history of state governance. Although Columbia is a Democratic stronghold, West Columbia is in one of the most solidly...
Besieged Terrain
...from a strip mine on its south-southeast border, Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy of Kentucky Heartwood. Strip mine on the south-southeast border of Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
Essay Nancy Marshall, Moon over Darien River, Georgia, 2010. I have a story about a crab that started a movement. It is about a river that is stunning in its...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...nation's bloodiest conflict, ensued in the South as a "War Between the States"—language that sustained the claim that southern states were not rebelling against the nation but were defending their...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...of freedom."7Cayton, The American Midwest, 12. Both images bolstered the still influential Turner thesis which characterized the Midwest as a place of equality where social status was fluid, where individuals achieved...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...device to contrast the industrialized Northeast with what he wanted to view as a pastoral, even Edenic, South, Eliot was in truth a Missourian, that most existentially challenging of all...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...state's center of attention, amassing the greatest concentration of African slaves, capital accumulation, and political influence. For a state that reveled in drinking copious quantities of hard liquor, questions about...
The Cobb County Braves
...the new stadium will follow a current trend in stadium development in the United States. As teams build new ballparks with smaller capacities, ticket prices rise as demand increases. Furthermore,...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...Photographs Division, http://www.loc.gov/resource/highsm.29287/. The flags, pictured left to right, represent states and revolutionary forces that once ruled Texas territory: the United States of America, the Confederate States of America, the Republic...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...in the text."5Nicholas Stephanopoulos, "The Supreme Court Showcased its 'Textualist' Double Standard on Voting Rights," Washington Post, July 1, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/01/supreme-court-alito-voting-rights-act/. The third consideration on Alito's list is "the degree...