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

Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History

...http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Northwest_Austin_Mun_Utility_Dist_No_One_v_Holder_129_S_Ct_2504_1. Like opponents to Section 5, Roberts cited increases in black and Hispanic voter registration and in the number of elected officials as evidence of how much the South has...

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

...SECTION 1. The United States shall create a series of commons communities, each designed to include a specified number of households within a larger landscape that will be managed by...

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...16, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/back-future-mapping-workers-across-global-south.  Hill, Sarah H. "Cherokee Removal Scenes: Elijay, Georgia, 1838." Southern Spaces, August 23, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/cherokee-removal-scenes-ellijay-georgia-1838.   Kirpalani, Neeta and Emily Jackson. "Birth Right." Southern Spaces, January 12, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/birth-right...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...the southwestern humor tale—exclusively in its use of language—from one of its earliest successful practitioners, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, to one of its last stylists in the antebellum period, George Washington...