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Modern Southern Folklore
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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
Foster Dickson
May 30
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 compromises.
Foster Dickson
May 9
Watching “The Harvest” from American Experience on PBS
Watching “The Harvest” from American Experience on PBS
Released in 2023, “The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi’s Schools” shares a story of youth and race in Leland.
Foster Dickson
Mar 12
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.
Foster Dickson
Feb 27
Hold Steady and Stick Together: A Rumination on School-Choice Vouchers
Hold Steady and Stick Together: A Rumination on School-Choice Vouchers
I’ve been listening to narratives about it since the mid-1980s, when my parents pulled me out of public school.
Foster Dickson
Jan 25
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