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New Yorkers
Bolt for Warmer,
Cheaper Atlanta

Jul 13, 2008 7:57 PM CDT

New Yorkers Bolt for Warmer, Cheaper Atlanta

The city's cheap housing and warm climate attracts northerners

(Newser) - New Yorkers are flocking to the southern climes and cheaper housing of Atlanta, but encountering a range of culture shocks, the New York Sun reports. About 40,000 yanks moved to Atlanta between 2000 and 2005, drawn partly by a booming job market, and now some wonder how to move...

Even Obama Can't Whistle
Through Dixie

OPINION

Jul 1, 2008 8:04 AM CDT

Even Obama Can't Whistle Through Dixie

He'll lose because white voters will cancel out black turnout: prof

(Newser) - Barack Obama is running a 50-state campaign, and some of his more breathless supporters have talked up the candidate as the first Democrat to win the South in decades. Not so fast, writes Thomas F. Schaller. As the political scientist explains in a New York Times op-ed, the Obaman dream...

Obama Aims
to Take Back
the South

Jun 30, 2008 8:22 AM CDT

Obama Aims to Take Back the South

Democrats think they can win Dixie

(Newser) - Barack Obama thinks he can do something Democrats have found impossible for 40 years: win the South. Dixie has been bright red ever since the Civil Rights Movement, but it's also full of black and young voters who either aren't registered or don't usually vote. So the potential in demographic...

Gas Prices Hit Hardest in Rural Areas—not Suburbs

Jun 9, 2008 8:40 AM CDT

Gas Prices Hit Hardest in Rural Areas—not Suburbs

The South, Southwest, and upper Great Plains feel brunt of $4 fuel

(Newser) - Gas prices, which hit an all-time-high average of $4 a gallon over the weekend, are causing more pain in rural America than anywhere else, with motorists in the South, Southwest, and the upper Great Plains the hardest hit. With relatively low wages and high use of pickup trucks and vans,...