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MONTICELLO — If you haven’t been around recently, you may notice changes to The Southerner Journal. “Around the South” attempts to provide semi-daily links to issues affecting the South, i.e. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Texas A&M may…

MONTICELLO — If you didn’t pay attention to the last week’s chicken controversy, you obviously did not have time on your hands. Congratulations from everyone else tarred-and-feathered from the culture wars this last week. Yet not everybody appreciates the further awakening of a food consciousness nearly as much as this woman: “Food choices are intrinsically…

All apologies for yesterday, which did not lend itself to links; Sundays never do. Onward with the latest incarnation of gathering Southern news in efforts of less than a three-hour process. South Leads Voting Rights Challenge What Obama Means to the South Some Vote to End Prison Hunger Strike Drought: Slows Barges on Lower Mississippi…

MONTICELLO — We believe knowledge gives power to the American voter. Therefore, we find it necessary to ask for that which should already be freely given in this 21st Century. Whereas we are the free citizens of the United States, Whereas we elect our president through the ballot instead of the bullet, Whereas we can…

Drought: Arkansas’ ‘Famed’ Cattle Industry Decimated | Missouri Still ‘Exceptional’ | Wet July Good for Mississippi Farmers | Mississippi River Low Mark Concerns Shippers North Carolina Prison Hunger Strike Continues ‘Adults’ Instigate Kids Beating Missouri Lesbian SOCIETY Chick-Fil-A Controversy: Alabama | Arkansas | Florida | Georgia | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maryland | Mississippi |…