Showing posts with label the South. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the South. Show all posts
Monday, February 9, 2026

Confederate flags in the rural non-south

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I'm not quite sure how many times I've seen the Confederate Battle Flag being flown in rural California, but it is certainly more th...
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Monday, December 8, 2025

Chronicle of Higher Education features LSU-Alexandria as an institution successfully serving rural students

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Dan Berrett reports on Louisiana State University-Alexandria's success in surviving the rural area amidst which it sits.  The headline ...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Another NY Times take on rural culture, in relation to Trump and MAGA

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Today's New York Times Opinions podcast features a conversation about " The Aesthetic that Explains American Identity Now ." ...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

An unduly provocative headline from the Ezra Klein Show about rural-urban tension

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Image from today's New York Times Ezra Klein Show podcast. The headline for the Ezra Klein podcast today --the one that popped up on my ...
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Saturday, October 18, 2025

Lots of rural (and Southern) stereotypes in today's NYT opinion

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Today's NY Times opinion podcast featured three southerners in conversation under the headline, "There is No Trump Without the So...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

Rural lack of anonymity in the wake of Tennessee explosion

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An explosion yesterday at an ammunition plant in McEwan, Tennessee, population 1643 ,  left several dead and many missing.  In the Washingto...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Risks to rural hospitals grab big headlines in Arkansas

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The lead story in today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is about the perils that Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill Act" poses ...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

"Rural" all over the news as Senate passes "Big Beautiful Bill" that will undermine rural services, especially health care

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Analysis of what Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" would do to rural health care has been in the news for several weeks, and it sta...
Sunday, February 2, 2025

1956 article recognizes still existing barriers to rural practice and accidentally makes a good point

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It should perhaps surprise no one that many of the systemic barriers that plague rural lawyers are long standing. Many rural lawyers charge ...
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Friday, January 31, 2025

When will women in rural Missouri have true abortion access?

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On November 5, 2024, as much of the country watched Donald Trump regain the presidency, abortion advocates in Missouri celebrated. Amendment...
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Monday, December 30, 2024

On the occasion of Jimmy Carter's death, looking back at his truly rural attachments

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On the occasion of his death, I'm re-upping here every mention of former President Jimmy Carter from Legal Ruralism .  I'll start ho...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Arkansas bureaucrat (essentially) calls state's rural residents "white trash"

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In early November, the State of Arkansas announced the purchase of 815 acres in rural Franklin County where the Department of Corrections in...
Saturday, December 7, 2024

Location, Location, Location Revisited: More Needs to be Done

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For this post, I am going to revisit a post I made seven years ago in which I discussed the role that law schools can play in alleviating t...
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Sunday, November 24, 2024

Understanding rural access to justice requires understanding historical economic injustice

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Understanding rural access to justice issues in the rural South can be a bit complicated. As I outlined back in February, many places in the...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Recent coverage of the rural vote in North Carolina and Georgia

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Police Department of Roxboro, North Carolina Person County (c) Lisa R. Pruitt 2023 With both of these states in play in the 2024 Presidentia...