Southern Politics

December 1, 2008 - The 2008 elections revealed that the South is rapidly changing and a key political battleground. Then why are pundits saying it’s time to write off the region?

November 18, 2008 - As we've noted, the major media's analysis about what the 2008 elections mean for the South has been predictable -- and predictably thin -- so far.

October 14, 2008 - Three weeks from Election Day -- which Southern states are in play for the presidential election?

October 2, 2008 - North Carolina's Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Kay Hagan, is a robo-call

September 29, 2008 - Danny Funderburk is mayor of Fort Mill, South Carolina (population 9,400). And he insists he doesn't have anything against Sen.

September 16, 2008 - Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas yesterday ordered city employees not to talk to reporters, the Galveston County Daily News reports.

September 15, 2008 - The Galveston area of Texas that took a direct hit from Hurricane Ike is home to a top-level biodefense laboratory that studies highly contagious and deadly diseases including bird flu, but lab officials are assuring the public that the pathogens were secured before the storm made landfall.