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

North Carolina: A State of Shock

...2011–2012 and 2012–2013. Even as GOP lawmakers found the funds to create a voucher system for private schools, they reduced the number of openings in the state's highly successful pre-K...

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...

Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...nabs under her belt 500 gallon vats--peanut butter stink so strong the smell lasts a lifetime and more crackers flying by ‘bout ninety miles per pull and pack ten thirty,...

The Change

...hung down like butterfly wings, though sometimes the color of luna moths,   or Carolina parakeets,   when just an hour ago they had been laid upon the old wooden...

Rent

...us and spiders—seasonless—survived the broom to live in every corner, their egg sacs hung like soft, spun pearls. Every spring, the bedroom filled with termites flying, having come up from...