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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

...some of the lowest rates in the nation. As the recession deepened, the state was forced to borrow $2.5 billion from the federal government to maintain the program's solvency.7"State Unemployment...

Love and Death at Second-Line

...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...

Congregation

...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...transformation, and both manifest the qualities of dedication and determination in moving toward that goal. Blair Mountain March and Rally, Day Six, Blair Mountain, West Virginia, June 11, 2011. Flickr...