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

Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History

...http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Northwest_Austin_Mun_Utility_Dist_No_One_v_Holder_129_S_Ct_2504_1. Like opponents to Section 5, Roberts cited increases in black and Hispanic voter registration and in the number of elected officials as evidence of how much the South has...

The Bulletin—March 20, 2013

...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...

COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health

...Cities in Brazil," Fohla De S.Paulo, October 7, 2018, https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/eleicoes/2018/veja-o-mapa-de-apuracao-de-todas-as-cidades-do-brasil/?#/cargo/presidente/local/sao-paulo/turno/1/mapa/estadual/municipio/sao-paulo/3550308.  Six-hundred locations dispersed the vaccine; sixteen of these were open for walk-in or drive-up around the clock. The state provided...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...part of a social project that encouraged political participation? What if citizens possessed use-rights over a sustaining landscape? Historians don't often write legislation. My attempt is consistent with the argument...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...or more" quilts of the Log Cabin pattern. In the nineteenth century, the Log Cabin pattern was constructed as a form of "pressed" patchwork, in which fabric strips were sewn,...