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

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...interesting case of marijuana prohibition, Isaac Campos makes the convincing argument that Mexican elites actually beat the United States to the punch by regulating it first, though typically U.S. politicians,...

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...in the world, the people in Central Appalachia, including those near my home in the southern West Virginia coalfields, are among the poorest people in the United States. Poverty rates...

The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman

...emblematic cargo of the once powerful New Orleans–based United Fruit Company, left for Gulfport, Mississippi in the 1970s. By 1980, the declining Locals 1418 and 1919 finally integrated, forming the...

Editorial Style Guide

...in headline-style, regardless of the style used in the original publication. "Digital Technology Digs Up Battle of Atlanta" US states and territories United States: Spell out United States when it...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...