Georgia’s secretary of state has stalled voter registrations and accused Democrats of hacking. His tactics recall past efforts in the South to suppress black votes, from poll taxes to literacy tests
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Enslaved workers used to grow cotton and mill flour. Now prisoners grind beef and crate eggs. Here, a historian explores Americans’ troubling habit of consuming the products of slave labor.
Towns are embracing their eccentric visitors as a way to boost their struggling economies.
Abrams just made history by securing the nomination for governor of Georgia. Can she win in November?
Year after year, southern states consistently rank among the worst in the US for health and wellness.
Almost 100 percent of black Alabamians voted for Doug Jones. The Democratic senator-elect can thank this key base by addressing his home state’s problems with rural poverty, education and health care.
A scholar of southern politics finds inspiration in an unexpected place.
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Sharon D. Wright Austin is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
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