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

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...and keep their gains.5On corporate subsidies, Niraj Chokshi, "The United States of Subsidies," Washington Post, March 18, 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/17/the-united-states-of-subsidies-the-biggest-corporate-winners-in-each-state/?utm_term​=.314361798972. Top, View of Arthurdale project, Reedsville, West Virginia, 1935. Photograph by...

The Bulletin—March 20, 2013

...Steubenville as both an impoverished town in the Rust Belt of Ohio and as an industrial Appalachian city, tacitly connecting the crime to longstanding regional stereotypes. The case has garnered...

COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health

...the top twenty-two states with the highest adult vaccination rates voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, and some of the least vaccinated states were the most pro-Trump....

Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

...it, or when it is forced on our attention: racism, casteism, patriarchy, heteronormativity, reductive monoculturalism. Vernacular prejudice appears as bias, malice, or inherited structures of discrimination, which the state believes...

Sams Gap, North Carolina

...look at what we have, most of them would not understand why we would even have a frustration.  But it's just knowing what you had and what you were used...

Birdhouses

...am most drawn to subjects connected to the agrarian past. This is dangerous territory, where a large and seductive catalogue of clichés and stereotypes tempts at every turn. That is...

Zircon

...Appalachian State, and East Carolina universities. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Morgan was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2010. Born on October 3,...

The Bulletin—May 15, 2012

...how legislators and lobbyists have encouraged the growth of the state’s prison population through financial incentives over the last two decades, causing Louisiana to become the world leader in incarceration....