"I drove all over Georgia investigating places where people used to swim that faded from the map after integration: pools filled, lakes drained, beaches sliced into private properties."
Hannah S. Palmer for Earth Island Journal: https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/the-american-souths-missing-pools-and-lakes
"Georgia on My Mind" is a 1930 song written by #HoagyCarmichael and #StuartGorrell, and first recorded that same year by Carmichael at the #RCAVictorStudios at 155 East 24th Street in New York City. The song has been most often associated with singer #RayCharles, who was a native of the #USStateOfGeorgia in #TheSouth of the United States, and recorded it for his 1960 album #TheGeniusHitsTheRoad. In 1979.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AezOXjQdA6c
"Georgia on My Mind" is a 1930 song written by #HoagyCarmichael and #StuartGorrell, and first recorded that same year by Carmichael at the #RCAVictorStudios at 155 East 24th Street in New York City. The song has been most often associated with singer #RayCharles, who was a native of the #USStateOfGeorgia in #TheSouth of the United States, and recorded it for his 1960 album #TheGeniusHitsTheRoad. In 1979.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIp9TwSEgFg
"Georgia on My Mind" is a 1930 song written by #HoagyCarmichael (1899–1981), and #StuartGorrell (1901–1963), and first recorded that same year by Hoagy Carmichael at the #RCAVictorStudios at 155 East 24th Street in #Manhattan of #NewYorkCity. However, the song has been most often associated with soul singer #RayCharles (1930–2004), who was a native of the #USStateOfGeorgia in #TheSouth of the #UnitedStates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWC0kNtteI8
It's impossible to mention sweet tea without talking about the Southern United States. But how did one sugared drink become synonymous with an entire regional identity? For one, it’s hot down there. “Do not underestimate the importance of a cooling beverage in the South,” says Robert F. Moss, restaurant critic and a contributing editor to Southern Living. @foodandwine has more on the origins of sweet tea and its presence in Southern culture. https://flip.it/q2YufH
#Culture #TheSouth #SouthernUS #Drinks #Beverages
"Aileen was a bird. In the South, this faintly damning label excuses behavior outside starchy normative bounds, as applied to drunks, liars, flirts, artists, unrepentant atheists, and others of the socially incorrect persuasion." —Shane Mitchell for The Bitter Southerner
https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2024/odd-birds-shane-mitchell
How the South Became Republican
“Over the course of the 1952 campaign Eisenhower made three swings through the South, visiting every state except Mississippi. He cajoled audiences and slammed politics in the capital. At times, he courted controversy. When ‘Dixie’, a pro-Confederate song and relic of the Civil War, was played during a visit to South Carolina, Eisenhower commented: ‘I always stand up when they play that song’, drawing cheers from the crowd.”
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/how-south-became-republican
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #Republicans #GOP #Eisenhower #TheSouth @histodon @histodons
