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

North Carolina: A State of Shock

...Carolina, Governor McCrory and the state's house speaker acknowledged that voter impersonation was not a problem, but they insisted that the new election laws were necessary to restore confidence—"confidence" that...

Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World

...antebellum Deep South during the cotton boom of the 1820s. The book's contributors argue that Louisiana's early history can only be understood by adopting an Atlantic perspective—one that considers its...

When the Border Crossed Me

...already known that Mexican people, men mostly, had started coming to central North Carolina. I knew many of them processed hogs or poultry, and that others worked on dairy or...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

...is right behind my office here and there is simply no acknowledgement of that fact," says Spirit of Anniston director Bean. "The dailiness of the segregation story, that's what we...