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

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...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...Rogers, a Kentucky Republican, introduced the Reclaim Act. The law would empower the Department of the Interior to distribute funds to states and Indian nations aimed at developing land in...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...are arranged to form a "checkerboard" design of alternating dark and light diamonds. Construction: Rosa's Log Cabin incorporates a large number of different printed fabrics. The dark palette is limited...

Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895

...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...of the earth—has been neglected or romanticized. Welchel Long, Dewey Rose, Georgia, 1987. Photograph by Lu Ann Jones. Courtesy of National Museum of American History, LJ 87-17112-2. In my recent...

The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey

...The Southern Quarterly 50, no. 4 (Summer 2013): 5, http://www.usm.edu/southern-quarterly-literary-magazine/intros/504edintro.pdf. In an essay eulogizing the poet Seamus Heaney, Trethewey describes feeling a "calling to make sense of my South, with...