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

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...federal lawsuits challenging voting discrimination across the country. These Congressional amendments overturned a 1980 Supreme Court opinion that a law violated the Act only if intent to discriminate could be...

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...here are at least twice that of the rest of the country. The people are mainly a rural, white population whose families have lived in Appalachia for generations, dating back...

Palomares Bajo

...successive US administrations, who from 1953 built and managed "joint" military installations across the country. The Morón base, near Seville, sent air tankers to refuel these planes returning to Goldsboro...

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...4/4, are sung with a slow plain section leading to a brisker fuging section. Brittain noted he had never heard "Novakoski" sung with this change in tempo, and the class...