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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—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 Bulletin—October 2, 2012

...is especially important because laws restricting rights of felons affect nearly a quarter of all African-Americans of voting age in Florida. Georgia Power (a unit of Southern Company, the second...

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...

Dirty Little Story

...But I wonder if any of them say more about us.  About the Author A native of Georgia, Rheta Grimsley Johnson grew up in Alabama where she attended Auburn University....

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

Essay On a spring evening in 1911, a mob of about fifty white men in the small city of Livermore, Kentucky, lynched Will Potter on the stage of the local...

Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield

"Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield, recorded in Plains, Georgia, 1976. Courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat Possum Records. From "Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley" by Steve Bransford. [Acoustic...

Transcript: Interview with Precious Bryant

Interview excerpt in which Precious Bryant discusses some of her earliest musical experiences. Recorded by Steve Bransford in Waverly Hall, Georgia, 2003. Courtesy of Steve Bransford. From "Blues in the...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

...Changing America: Indivisible (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000); One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013);...