November 11, 2008 -
As Facing South reported earlier this month, Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel (R) sent letters to 4,770 registered voters telling them that they would have to cast
November 11, 2008 -
Veterans Day has a special meaning in the South. As the Institute has documented, a disproportionate share of the nation's soldiers come from and are based in the South, and the armed services have a central place in Southern life and politics.
November 11, 2008 -
As we all know, in the South there are lots of white Democrats who vote for Republican presidents. Ever since the 1960s, the Civil Rights Act and Nixon's Southern Strategy, Republicans have succeeded in peeling off a growing share of presidential votes from white Democrats in the region.
November 11, 2008 -
Labor union members and workers looking for economic change voted in large numbers for Barak Obama this month. The union vote helped secure white middle-class voters for Obama in battleground industrial states like Pennsylvania and Ohio,
November 11, 2008 -
Bloggers in Georgia have been questioning the large undervote in the Nov. 4 Senate race.
November 11, 2008 -
Lessons from the Religious Response to Hurricane Katrina August 2008
November 10, 2008 -
One of the biggest questions in the 2008 election was this: Will whites in the South vote not just for Democratic president, but for the first major African-American candidate in history?