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Southern United States

Cultural region in the southeastern and south-central United States

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Nov 1, 2025
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Did democrats and Republicans flip platforms on race

Yes: over the 20th century the Democratic and Republican parties underwent a major, multi-decade realignment on race and regional coalitions. The change was gradual — driven by New Deal coalitions, ci...

Nov 28, 2025
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How have Black communities reclaimed or rejected the term 'nigga', and what debates exist around its intracommunity use?

Black communities have both reclaimed and rejected the variant “nigga”: many speakers use it intracommunally as a marker of camaraderie or rhetorical strategy, while other Black leaders and writers ca...

Dec 16, 2025
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How do El Niño and La Niña differently affect U.S. winter temperature and snowfall patterns?

El Niño and La Niña are opposite phases of ENSO that shift the Pacific jet stream and therefore alter U.S. winter temperature and snowfall patterns: La Niña typically favors colder-than-normal winters...

Dec 18, 2025

How did regional and state-level suicide rates in 2025 compare to 2024 across the United States?

Preliminary national figures and multiple news reports indicate the U.S. suicide rate edged down in 2024 from very high levels, with roughly 48,800 deaths reported that year — about 500 fewer than in ...

Dec 14, 2025

Why did some promote ivermectin as COVID-19 cure?

Ivermectin was promoted as a COVID-19 cure for a mix of early laboratory signals, small and sometimes flawed clinical studies, aggressive advocacy by clinicians and activists, and political and social...

Dec 11, 2025

What are the historical and legal precedents for public executions in the United States?

Public, crowd‑visible executions were routine in U.S. history and persisted into the 20th century; historians and reference sites identify Rainey Bethea’s 1936 hanging in Owensboro, Kentucky, as the l...

Nov 4, 2025

How did the practice of using human bait for alligator hunting reflect the racial tensions in Louisiana?

The central claim is that the practice of using human bait for alligator hunting in the American South — specifically the alleged use of Black children as bait — . Contemporary retellings and scholars...

Oct 20, 2025

What role does the Voting Rights Act of 1965 play in preventing gerrymandering?

The Voting Rights Act’s Section 2 is the principal federal tool used to challenge racially discriminatory district maps by allowing voters of color to sue when electoral practices , and recent litigat...

Jan 20, 2026

Was ICE protested during Obama’s presidency?

Yes — ICE and broader immigration-enforcement policies were the focus of sustained protest activity during President Barack Obama’s tenure; activists, immigrant-rights groups and sympathetic politicia...

Jan 20, 2026

How did white Southern voter perceptions of party positions on integration change between 1960 and 1968?

Between 1960 and 1968 white Southern voters shifted sharply in who they believed was the party pushing school integration: in 1960 only a small minority associated Democrats with integration, but by 1...

Jan 10, 2026

Would it be possible to pit nazi's against the kkk?

Deliberately trying to "pit" Nazis against the Ku Klux Klan is theoretically possible because the groups share overlapping but distinct constituencies and histories of both cooperation and conflict, y...

Jan 6, 2026

How have surveys and academic studies in recent years measured Black attitudes on non-Black use of the n-word?

Recent surveys and academic studies have measured Black attitudes about non-Black use of the n-word using a mix of self‑report questionnaires, experimental tasks, and public-opinion polling, and they ...

Dec 11, 2025

What alternatives do nonexpansion states offer for uninsured low-income residents?

Nonexpansion states have created a patchwork of alternatives — expanded subsidies or “fallback” marketplace plans, targeted state programs for specific groups (pregnant people, children, mental-health...

Nov 3, 2025

African Princes Who Were Taken by FORCE

The broad claim “African princes who were taken by force” is supported by documented, individual cases rather than by a generalized, always-applicable pattern: the most directly corroborated example i...

Nov 1, 2025

How do gerrymandered districts influence the representation of minority groups in Congress?

Gerrymandered districts shape minority group representation in Congress primarily through and , producing outcomes that can either concentrate minority voters into winnable seats or dilute their influ...

Oct 31, 2025

Which states have the highest and lowest food stamp participation rates in 2025?

The evidence assembled from July–October 2025 reporting and USDA data indicates that , while in analyses that use fiscal‑year‑2024 or early‑2025 data . Reporting agrees on the broad pattern—high parti...

Oct 15, 2025

how may states anre gerrymandered by republicans VS Democrat's

Public analyses across academic, nonprofit, and news outlets show , with studies estimating a net GOP advantage worth roughly a dozen to a couple dozen U.S. House seats and skewed maps in about a doze...

Oct 15, 2025

Does the US have a timber surplus?

The assembled analyses collectively indicate that the United States shows , driven by projected production growth, large biomass potential, and regional supply shifts—particularly in the South. Import...