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  • September 2008

    • Debate Allows Host Ole Miss to Show Progress on Race

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 25, 08 10:48 AM CDT

      Debate Allows Host Ole Miss to Show Progress on Race

      (Newser) - Assuming the presidential debate happens tomorrow, host University of Mississippi gets to show the nation it’s moved beyond its racially tinged past, the Los Angeles Times reports. The school, known for deadly riots when the first black student enrolled in the 1960s and controversy over Confederate flags at football games in the ‘90s, spent $5.5 million to prep for the public-relations opportunity. More »

  • August 2008
  • July 2008

    • The Southern Drawl's Double Standard

      Columbia Journalism Review  |  Jul 30, 08 4:43 PM CDT

      The Southern Drawl's Double Standard

      (Newser) - When Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama stumped in Arkansas, each tried on a Southern drawl, and both were roundly mocked as pandering Yankees. Even John Edwards, a native Southerner, was accused of “carefully maintaining” his accent for political effect. Yet Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee were allowed to drawl with impunity, writes Jane Hammons of the Columbia Journalism Review , thanks to a stereotypical double standard. More »

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      Mike Huckabee  • John Edwards  • Fred Thompson  • South  • accent

    • New Yorkers Bolt for Warmer, Cheaper Atlanta

      New York Sun  |  Jul 13, 08 7:57 PM CDT

      New Yorkers Bolt for Warmer, Cheaper Atlanta

      (Newser) - New Yorkers are flocking to the southern climes and cheaper housing of Atlanta, but encountering a range of culture shocks, the New York Sun reports. About 40,000 yanks moved to Atlanta between 2000 and 2005, drawn partly by a booming job market, and now some wonder how to move back. "Atlanta is a second-tier city," one Big Apple expat griped. "New York is cooler and more exciting in every respect." More »

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      Georgia  • New York  • real estate  • Atlanta  • job market  • lifestyle  • South  • winter weather

    • Even Obama Can't Whistle Through Dixie

      New York Times  |  Jul 1, 08 8:04 AM CDT

      Even Obama Can't Whistle Through Dixie

      (Newser) - Barack Obama is running a 50-state campaign, and some of his more breathless supporters have talked up the candidate as the first Democrat to win the South in decades. Not so fast, writes Thomas F. Schaller. As the political scientist explains in a New York Times op-ed, the Obaman dream of retaking the South rests upon false assumptions about race and voting patterns. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Obama 2008  • Georgia  • race  • North Carolina  • Virginia  • black voters  • South

  • June 2008

    • Obama Aims to Take Back the South

      New York Times  |  Jun 30, 08 8:22 AM CDT

      Obama Aims to Take Back the South

      (Newser) - Barack Obama thinks he can do something Democrats have found impossible for 40 years: win the South. Dixie has been bright red ever since the Civil Rights Movement, but it's also full of black and young voters who either aren't registered or don't usually vote. So the potential in demographic groups key to Obama's candidacy "is just incredible,” his deputy campaign manager tells the New York Times .  More »

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      Barack Obama  • Georgia  • North Carolina  • Virginia  • demographics  • black voters  • South

    • Gas Prices Hit Hardest in Rural Areas—not Suburbs

      New York Times  |  Jun 9, 08 8:40 AM CDT

      Gas Prices Hit Hardest in Rural Areas—not Suburbs

      (Newser) - Gas prices, which hit an all-time-high average of $4 a gallon over the weekend, are causing more pain in rural America than anywhere else, with motorists in the South, Southwest, and the upper Great Plains the hardest hit. With relatively low wages and high use of pickup trucks and vans, rural families spend up to 13% of their income on fuel while the national average is only 4%, reports the New York Times. More »

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      gas prices  • economy  • fuel costs  • wages  • South  • Great Plains  • fuel consumption  • low-income families

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