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Southern politicians claim that “business-friendly” policies lead to an abundance of jobs and economic prosperity for all Southerners. The data actually show a grim economic reality.
Cracks have started to appear in red states’ anti-union front.
"The Saturday we went on strike was a powerful day. I felt like we were standing up for ourselves and for all the other underpaid, unappreciated workers who needed a change. I knew that my voice was going to make a difference."
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Historian Karen L. Cox examines the myth of the Lost Cause: a campaign created by pro-Confederates after the Civil War to promote the lie that they seceded for state's rights.
The abortion ban map is a Southern map. The Supreme Court's 'ordered liberty' judicial vision is rooted there too. But the South is also the birthplace of the Freedom Movement and emancipatory visions.
Our research found that many plantation museums are reluctant to highlight Black lives and histories. But there is promising evidence of change at sites like McLeod Plantation in Charleston and Whitney Plantation in Louisiana.
Eleven of the 26 states likely or certain to ban abortion should Roe fall are in the region, according to a Guttmacher Institute analysis. Ten of those 11 Southern states already have on the books what are known as "trigger bans."
Since Georgia implemented automatic voter registration in 2016, its number of registered voters has increased by about 1.5 million. But will it survive Republican assaults?
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