American South

My True South: Why I Decided to Return Home

By Jesmyn Ward

Can She Turn Georgia Blue?

By Molly Ball

Meet the 31 People Who Are Changing the South

By TIME Staff

How Southern Food Has Finally Embraced Its Multicultural Soul

By Gustavo Arellano
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How Georgia Became the Hollywood of the South: TIME Goes Behind the Scenes

When The Walking Dead started filming in Senoia, Ga., in 2011, six stores were open in the 4,000-person town. “It was dying,” says Lee Thomas, deputy commissioner of the Georgia film office. That’s exactly what...

By Eliana Dockterman

The South Could Mend America’s Divide—If It Reckons With Its Past

A chance to reshape American life

By Jon Meacham

What Democrats Don’t Get About the South

What Democrats don't get about the south

By David French

Miranda Lambert, Faith Hill and Other Celebrities Share Their Favorite Spots in the South

We asked notable Southerners to tell us about a place they love. Here are some of their favorites.Miranda Lambert Float the Guadalupe River by day and listen to live music at Gruene Hall by night—it’s...

By TIME Staff

Why the Mississippi Remains the South’s Most Vital Artery

The Mississippi remains the South's most vital artery

By Walter Isaacson

Memories From the South: Waters of the Bayou

In this floating city, water soaks every aspect of daily life–from our car-insurance premiums to our music to our fears of the future–but you can go weeks without seeing it. The Mississippi River slouches behind...

By Nathaniel Rich

An Orchard at the Bottom of a Hill

Previously unpublished work from Southern poets

By Maurice Manning

Foreday in the Morning

Previously unpublished work from Southern poets

By Jericho Brown

Memories From the South: Growing Up in a ‘Sundown Town’

When I was growing up near Corbin, Ky., in the 1980s, the little town was still grappling with a shameful event that had happened decades earlier. In 1919, a mob of white men had driven...

By Silas House

Memories From the South: Jogging Through Paynes Prairie

Nearly every morning in Gainesville, Fla., I tie on my sneakers and go for a run through my quiet neighborhood to the Hawthorne bike trail, then into Paynes Prairie for a wake-up jolt of beauty.Early...

By Lauren Groff

Memories From the South: Doe’s Eat Place

Doe’s Eat Place, the restaurant founded in 1941 in my hometown of Greenville, Miss., has reached legendary status among foodies the world over for its superlative steaks cooked on a mammoth open broiler, its hot...

By Julia Reed

Memories From the South: In Elvis We Trust

We need Elvis now more than ever.Growing up in Georgia and Alabama in the 1970s and ’80s, I always felt that the bad old days of Southern prejudice and ignorance had passed, that we were...

By Ace Atkins

Memories From the South: The Church of SEC Football

It has been said that college football is a religion, and Saturday is its High Holy Day. So I was not surprised when I found myself at synagogue in Knoxville in September on Kol Nidre,...

By Paul Finebaum

Duty

Previously unpublished work from Southern poets

By Natasha Trethewey

Memories From the South: Fried Chicken on Race Day

On race days we were slammed at Holly Farms Fried Chicken, the fast-food restaurant in North Wilkesboro, N.C., where I started working on my 16th birthday. Usually business was painfully slow, and I spent long,...

By Stephanie Powell Watts

Memories From the South: Hunting Camp

In South Carolina, season opens the first week of October. A few diehards at camp come at the start and stay till the end, but most of us filter in and out whenever time allows....

By David Joy
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