The US South and the 2008 Election
...defense spending and the Sunbelt got the disproportionate share, whether it was defense contractors in southern California, aircraft manufacturers in Dallas and Atlanta, or nuclear reactors in South Carolina. As...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...had occupied Ossabaw since about 2000 BCE, but European colonization began when the Spanish arrived in the late sixteenth century. A lasting remnant of Spanish colonization on Ossabaw is the...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...hot spots are categorized by page number and the user can specify a range of pages that will restrict the map's details and move through the events of those pages....
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...how the circumspect Percy "became quite close," with scandal-plagued British writer Norman Douglas, "as evidenced by the one letter that survives between them—which, significantly, is not in Percy's papers but...
Residues of Border Control
...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...
Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...Elmendorf, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, and Christopher S. Warshaw In Support of Appellees/Respondents, Merrill v. Milligan, July 18, 2022, 7–8, https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1086/230239/20220718132621523_91539%20HARVARD%20BRIEF%20PROOF3.pdf. The brief notes that these numbers do not include settlements....
Remnants of Flannery
...Wise Blood, was memorably brought to the screen in 1980 by filmmaker John Huston. Atlanta's Good Country Pictures has acquired the film rights to many of O'Connor's texts, planning to...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...congressional districts in all states of the former Confederacy provide the bulk of opposition to immigration reform in Washington. Had Congress voted last year along the same lines as almost all representatives...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...