Alabama
Texas Republicans to Cities: Drop Dead. | #elections | #alabama
As the dividing lines in the Civil War of 1861 separated North from South, so the dividing lines in our current civil war—the ones where the conflicts are fiercest—separate red states from their blue cities. You have Tennessee against Nashville; Alabama against Birmingham; Kentucky against Louisville; Florida against Tampa; Indiana against Indianapolis; Texas against Austin, […]
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Arkansas
The Modern-Day Company Towns of Arkansas
This article appears in the August 2022 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. On a sweltering June Sunday earlier this summer, under the shade of a pavilion in Springdale, Arkansas’s Luther George Park, Alice Gachuzo-Colin launched her campaign for city council. The first Black woman ever to run for office in Springdale, Gachuzo-Colin […]
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