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

The Shenandoah Valley

...in 1864 thoroughly understood the region's complex geography and its social and economic landscape; so much so, that they systematically conquered it. The breathtaking beauty of the Shenandoah Valley is...

Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income

...Public Schools." Southern Education Foundation (2015). http://www.southerneducation.org/Our-Strategies/Research-and-Publications/New-Majority-Diverse-Majority-Report-Series/A-New-Majority-2015-Update-Low-Income-Students-Now. ———. "Update A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South and Nation." Southern Education Foundation (2013). http://www.southerneducation.org/News-and-Events/posts/April-2014/Juvenile-Justice-Education-Programs-in-the-United-aspx.aspx. ———. "A New Majority: Low...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...America; one document tells of a black fife and drum corps playing for a Confederate regiment."29Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began (New York: The New Press,1993), 333. "Every...

Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City

...not Gone?” Northwestern Institute for Policy Research, accessed October 23, 2017. http://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/about/news/2014/IPR-research-Great-Recession-unemployment-foreclosures-safety-net-fertility-public-opinion.html.  Foreclosures and underwater mortgages decimated real estate markets from Los Angeles to Orlando. Housing starts evaporated. Underfunded and...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...easy."7Michelle Malkin, "Queen of Cringe," New York Post, April 25, 2007; "The Big Story with John Gibson," Fox News Network, March 5, 2007. Straining to speak in the voice of...

Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway

Banner image for Driving Through Time, DocSouth, 2012. Review Well-worn words and phrases come to mind when driving the Blue Ridge Parkway—stunning, dramatic, timeless, a miracle of engineering and landscape...