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NEWS ABOUT: South

South stories: 15 news summaries

Americans Split on Health Care Priorities: Poll

But they're divided by race, age, location,
not political party

Aug 10, 09 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Americans have differing priorities for health care reform based not on a Republican/Democrat divide but on their race, age, and location, a USA Today/Gallup poll found. A majority of African-American and Latino voters among those polled think extending coverage to the uninsured should be the most important aspect of reform... More »

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race • health insurance • African Americans • health care industry • Latinos • health care reform • South • women's issues

OPINION

Southern Rednecks Killing GOP: Parker

Is it any surprise that birthers are common down there?

Aug 5, 09 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Asked recently what was wrong with his party, Ohio Sen. George Voinovich didn’t hold back. “It’s the Southerners,” he said. “They get on TV and go ‘errrr, errrr.’ People hear them and say, ‘These people are Southerners.’” No one’s... More »

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George Voinovich • right wingers • Southerners • South • Kathleen Parker • Republicans • birther

(Newser) - The American South is the most obese region in the country because of a “perfect storm” of factors, Claire Suddath writes for Time. Mississippi, whose 33% adult obesity rate makes it the fattest state, is also the poorest, with 21% of people living under the poverty line. That... More »

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obesity • heat • Mississippi • poverty • public transportation • excercise • South • Southern United States • physical activity

opinion

 South Ensuring 
 Detroit Won't 
 Rise Again 

States woo Northern economy with lower wages, 'inhumane standards'

Dec 18, 08 1:20 PM CST
(Newser) - It's no coincidence that Dixie senators derailed the Big Three bailout, since the South—with anti-union laws, low wages, and modest taxes—has built a counter-Detroit that will ensure that neither the Motor City or the South will rise again, Michael Lind writes in Salon. The same tactics were used... More »

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Congress • Detroit • US economy • US automakers • South • financial crisis

(Newser) - The bicentennial of Lincoln's birth will be celebrated Feb. 12, so expect endless tributes to the president beloved by ordinary citizens and historians alike. Unless, of course, you're south of the Mason-Dixon line, where anti-Lincoln views "aren't particularly radical," writes Alex Beam of the Boston Globe. Lincoln is... More »

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Boston • America • history • Abraham Lincoln • Civil War • South • Dixie

OPINION

 God Bless You, 
 Fox News 

Vitriolic network so valuable, DNC ought to be paying for it

Nov 12, 08 8:24 AM CST
(Newser) - Thank you, Roger Ailes. Sure, your Fox News Channel still specializes in misinformation, distortion, and right-wing fairy tales, but “I’m no longer sure this is a bad thing,” writes Harold Meyerson in the Washington Post. The GOP needs to move in a new direction and... More »

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Richard Nixon • Fox News • Republican Party • Roger Ailes • South

 Obama the 'Unofficial' 
 Winner in N. Carolina 

Old Confederacy state a historic win for black president

Nov 6, 08 9:17 AM CST
(Newser) - In North Carolina, they're calling Barack Obama the "unofficial" victor, the News & Observer reports, after the state elections director said late yesterday that provisional ballots not yet counted are unlikely to overturn the president-elect's lead. Obama leads John McCain by 13,746 votes, with 40,000... More »

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Barack Obama • race • North Carolina • minority • voters • slavery • South

Diabetes in US Nearly Doubles in 10 Years

South is hardest hit,
as obesity and lack of exercise fuel surge

Oct 30, 08 4:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - The nation's diabetes epidemic shows no signs of slowing, Reuters reports. Almost twice as many people were diagnosed with the disease between 2005 and 2007 as between 1995 and 1997. Nearly all of the new cases are Type 2, which is linked to obesity and lack of exercise. Nine of... More »

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obesity • diabetes • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • epidemic • American Diabetes Association • excercise • South • Southern United States

Debate Allows Host Ole Miss to Show Progress on Race

Great strides since deadly '60s riots, but students say university remains divided

Sep 25, 08 10:48 AM CDT
(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... More »

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presidential debate • race relations • segregation • University of Mississippi • campus • South • Dixie

Dems Fight
to Retake
the South

Party is running the most competitive Dixie campaign in 40 years

Aug 7, 08 10:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats are mounting a full-scale assault on Southern congressional seats, the Wall Street Journal reports. By fielding socially moderate candidates, Democrats look like they might do the unthinkable: reverse the “Great Reversal,” the civil rights-era shift of the South from a Democratic stronghold to a Republican one.... More »

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Congress • Democrat • Alabama • congressional candidates • Election 2008 • congressional seat • Democratic candidates • South • Bobby Bright

Analysis

The Southern Drawl's Double Standard

Only GOP candidates are allowed to 'tahlk
like thee-us'

Jul 30, 08 4:43 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

 New Yorkers
 Bolt for Warmer,
 Cheaper Atlanta 

The city's cheap housing and warm climate attracts northerners

Jul 13, 08 7:57 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

OPINION

Even Obama Can't Whistle
Through Dixie

He'll lose because white voters will cancel out black turnout: prof

Jul 1, 08 8:04 AM CDT
(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... More »

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


 Obama Aims 
 to Take Back 
 the South 

Democrats think they can win Dixie

Jun 30, 08 8:22 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

Gas Prices Hit Hardest in Rural Areas—not Suburbs

The South, Southwest, and upper Great Plains feel brunt of $4 fuel

Jun 9, 08 8:40 AM CDT
(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,... More »

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

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