In the South, Echoes of Jacksonâs Run
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There are echoes of Jesse Jacksonâs candidacy as the battle for the Democratic nomination once again roars across the South, focused squarely on African Americans.
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If the Sun Belt is where the growth is, then Southern Company is a place to be.
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That's the way they do things down South, nice and   gentleman-like.
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MACON, Georgia  - With its painful history of slavery and segregation, it is easy to presume how Southern white voters will respond to Barack Obama, who would be the country's first black president, but observers say simple assumptions about politics in the region would be wrong.
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Each summer, thousands of rural residents gather to watch friends and neighbors race.
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COLE CITY HOLLOW, Tenn. -- Nearly two centuries after a flawed survey placed Georgia's northern border just short of the Tennessee River, some legislators are thirsting to set the record straight.
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Recent moves across the South, but even in the capital, seek to modify statues and plaques for historical figures to reflect racist past.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 15--From Bob Bendick, director of the Southern Region of The Nature Conservancy:   I flew across the South from New Orleans to Charlotte. While the people around me read papers and stared into computer screens, I looked out the window.
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When civil rights elders signed on to support Hillary Rodham Clinton's run for president, it was seen as a coup in the competition for the black vote, especially in the Deep South.
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Mr. Taylorâs projects helped shape skylines in several Southern metropolitan areas.
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Aaron Jackson grew up in Destin, Florida, a self-proclaimed child of privilege with golf and sunshine filling most of his days.
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Jim Crow may be ancient history, but blacks folks and white folks don't party together in the capital of the 'New South'
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WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. - The bus trip from Chicago to a Mississippi gambling town was a twice-a-year tradition for the group of friends and relatives, as much about visiting, laughing and reminiscing as it was about trying to strike it rich.
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The race is forcing a generation of Americans to examine the decisions they made back then.
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The retrial of a 1964 case evokes echoes of a racist past in a much-changed South.
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When Harper Lee wrote &quot;To  Kill A Mockingbird&quot; she could not have known it would be hailed  as a classic, much less that it would shape the way her  hometown viewed its past.
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From North Carolina to South Dakota, candidates vie to be of the people, not of Washington.