Nobody’s Home

Review: “My Cousin Vinny” (1992)

Republished from “Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore,” which focuses on beliefs, myths, and narratives in Southern culture since 1970

Reading “Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State” by Andrew Gelman, et al. (2008)

My hope is for a strong two-party presence with competitive elections and good public policy that emerges from…

Watching “The Harvest” from American Experience on PBS

Reading Alexander P. Lamis’ “Southern Politics in the 1990s” (1999)

The 1990s were among the middle years, the decade when the two-party South of the 1970s and 1980s was giving way.

Hold Steady and Stick Together: A Rumination on School-Choice Vouchers

Surprised by Strangers

Republished from “Nobody’s Home,” an essay by DeLane Phillips

In the News, Fall 2023

“In the News” provides a sampling of stories, articles, or reviews that relate…

Reading Zachary J. Lechner’s “The South of the Mind”

Republished from Groundwork, the editor’s blog

Published in 2018, Zachary J. Lechner’s The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960–1980 carries the reader…

A Road Trip, West: Alabama’s Black Belt

The Black Belt is the substance of the myths.