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

Inside Poor Monkey's

...Many customers bring their own Crown Royal, which is acceptable as long as they buy mixers. By ten o’clock, although the lounge grows smoky and raucous, a code of behavior...

Sweep

...lived here all year I'd buy American, I'd drive a truck, and I'm thinking of football and my father's and Mike's words staking out an absence I know I won't...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...and buying natural fibers can create change in the absence of the hard work of lobbying and community organizing. Traffic on River Road heading toward Valero, Destrehen, Louisiana. Photograph by...

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...

A Mess of Poke

...page, "The decision to stop processing poke was primarily because of the difficulty of finding people interested in picking poke and bring it to our buying locations." Poke lacks a...

Consolation

...maybe we could, a minute, rejoice that no one will ever fall from this height again, no one will tangle three months in the river and be raised up anonymous...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...sound chamber. But the tone of the strings on the other neck was yours, old sweet-playing father. In the late twenties, they cut a few minutes of you into vinyl...