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Cultural region in the southeastern and south-central United States
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...
has become the center of viral audio recordings into a network tied to and that was among his abusers; those recordings and the dramatic claims they contain are currently unverified and not reflected ...
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...
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...
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...
slaveholding accounted for roughly half of ’s measured aggregate wealth, but that wealth was extremely concentrated in a small planter elite: a minority of white families owned slaves, an even smaller...
have historically inflicted their heaviest infrastructure damage in parts of the and —states such as , and repeatedly rank among the worst-hit because heavy ice accumulations there collapse trees and ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The publicly cited documentary evidence supporting ’s claims is a patchwork: six unredacted audio interviews released by journalist , assorted records Riley says exist (military, police, hospital, CPS...
The decennial Census determines how the 435 seats in the are apportioned among the states, and because each state’s total equals its number of Representatives plus two Senators (with 3 additional elec...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...