Southern Exposure is an award-winning print journal and magazine published by the Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, from 1973 until 2011. Southern Exposure earned a national reputation and won several awards, including a National Magazine Award and two George Polk Awards, for its writing and investigative reporting on a broad range of political, economic, and cultural issues in the South.

Vol. 20 No. 3 - Fall 1992
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Magazine cover with photo of elderly man lying in hospital or nursing home bed, mouth open, looking out the window. Text reads "No Place Like Home"

No Place Like Home

  • Dateline: The South

    Compiled by Mario Nebbitts

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  • Southern News Roundup

    Compiled by Eric Bates

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  • Hog Wild

    Corporate hog farms are slaughtering family farmers and poisoning drinking water across the rural South. By David Cecelski and Mary Lee Kerr.

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  • No Place Like Home

    We've all heard the horror stories about nursing homes. So why do so many still provide so little care? By Eric Bates.

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  • Resting Uneasy

    How nursing homes and rest homes in North Carolina use their political and financial clout to protect business as usual. By Tinker Ready.

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  • Back-Breaking Care

    Spending a day with a nursing home aide shows that even the best must struggle to do a good job. By Anne Clancy.

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  • "Because Someone Spoke Up"

    Fran Sutcliffe has been raising hell and reforming nursing homes for two decades—but she hasn't given up hope. Interview by Ellen Forman.

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  • Where the Heart Is

    Nursing homes are not the only option. Here are six non-profit alternatives that really work.

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  • Southern Voices: Miss Elizabeth

    Interview by Kat Meads

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  • Fiction: Snakes

    By Nanci Kincaid

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  • Home Cheat Home

    Taking out a home-equity loan? Beware: Big banks are preying on the poor, using high-interest loans to steal low-income homes. By Mike Hudson.

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  • The South in Congress

    Who's best, who's worst. SE rates the region's congressional representatives on 20 key votes. By Barry Yeoman, Bob Hall, and Laura Neish.

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  • Double Bubba

    The South rose again at the Democratic National Convention. But whose South was it? By Barry Yeoman.

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