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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—September 4, 2012

...and Democratic National Conventions held in Tampa, Florida and Charlotte, North Carolina respectively.   The Huffington Post reported that many of the workers responsible for cleaning up after convention-goers at...

The Bulletin—June 19, 2013

...outside interests," a recent study has indicated that ninety eight percent of the protestors are from North Carolina. Florida's "Bong Ban" is set to take effect on July 1, 2013. The bill,...

The Bulletin—October 18, 2012

...Mississippi's governor has joined other southern Republican governors from Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Texas in declining to participate in the program, in the wake of a Supreme Court...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...won Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina. He also challenged seriously in Georgia and potentially could have won the state had he not pulled out resources in the aftermath of the...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

...and St. Louis to New Orleans and St. Petersburg, Florida, from April to December 1961. Raymond Arsenault's 2006 book, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, gives the...

Southern Spaces Recommends

...is originally from Panama City, Florida. In the play a group of gay characters ponder how "we need our community, we need our history. How else can we teach the...

Elegy for the Native Guards

Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...