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#LosAngeles is home to the world's longest light rail line at 57.6m or 92.7km. The line features 48 stations and served 22,282,648 passengers in 2025. #americana #wa #northcarolina #travel #oak #youtube #vlog #travel #deepsouth #raleigh #nc #losangeles #la #lax
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https://youtu.be/GK9W62qT50k

Catch up, let's see what's on the tape. A hill to cram and grill to slam. A stately duopoly, a pilot program with Fayetteville and Asheville to spare. #americana #wa #northcarolina #travel #oak #youtube #vlog #travel #deepsouth #raleigh #nc
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https://youtu.be/-8GdEYMJYi8

Catch up, let's see what's on the tape. One of oak and tar with folk and spar. A slowpoke and one who's quite bizarre until he awoke to radar. #americana #wa #northcarolina #travel #oak #youtube #vlog #travel #deepsouth #raleigh #nc
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https://youtu.be/CV5Z7GSQz2c

Catch up, let's see what's on the tape. One of flight, wait and time before the bright and great mime. Another climb straight to the top to see the night at the right height. #americana #wa #northcarolina #travel #oak #youtube #vlog #youtube #travel #deepsouth #raleigh #nc #westchester #lax
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https://youtu.be/WT3voBGbzh4

Hype for the Future 105B: National Forests of Texas

Introduction Within the State of Texas, a total of four (4) national forest zones are included, obviously on the eastern side of the State in which more humidity is typical. For each national forest, a distinct story is told about the State as a whole, with every particular regional divide representing cultural distinctions as well as geographic and potentially natural distinctions. National Forests Within the State of Texas, the national forests are named Sam Houston, Angelina, Davy […]

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/hype-for-the-future-105b-national-forests-of-texas/

Hype for the Future 105A: Kisatchie National Forest

Introduction Located in a string of central and northern parishes within the State of Louisiana, the Kisatchie National Forest is associated with the Cenozoic uplands within the State. Longleaf pine forests dominate the area, though the type of forest has been on a significant decline overall for the past century. Parishes The Kisatchie National Forest is associated with portions of seven (7) distinct parishes within the State of Louisiana, namely the Parishes of Grant, Natchitoches, Winn, […]

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/hype-for-the-future-105a-kisatchie-national-forest/

Hype for the Future 104H: Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests

Introduction The State of South Carolina is home to two (2) distinct national forests. The Francis Marion National Forest is situated within the coastal plain of the State of South Carolina, directly facing the Atlantic Ocean, while the inland Sumter National Forest is associated with the Upstate Piedmont region of the State. Of the forty-six counties of the State of South Carolina, a select handful of the counties are identified as associated with either forest. Francis Marion National […]

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/hype-for-the-future-104h-francis-marion-and-sumter-national-forests/

Hype for the Future 104E: The National Forests of North Carolina

Introduction Within the State of North Carolina, a total of four (4) National Forest areas are included. From west to east, these areas are the Nantahala, Pisgah, Uwharrie, and Croatan National Forests, with the entirety of the forest system within the State headquartered within Asheville. Though the Cherokee National Forest contains territory in Ashe County, North Carolina, such territory remains entirely associated with the State of Tennessee, where the forest area is generally split into […]

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/hype-for-the-future-104e-the-national-forests-of-north-carolina/

Hype for the Future 98K: The Santee and Hopsewee Plantations — South Carolina

Overview Though the Santee and Hopsewee Plantations are located nearby, the historical contexts of either plantation determine many of the cultural and economical differences. The Santee Plantation is on the south side of the South Santee River in Charleston County while the Hopsewee Plantation is situated near North Santee further north in Georgetown County. As with many plantations in the region in South Carolina, the historical context can largely be traced to the eighteenth (18th) […]

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/hype-for-the-future-98k-the-santee-and-hopsewee-plantations-south-carolina/

"Fear was essential to keeping white power intact, and as the civil rights movement whipped up revolutionary energy across the Black Belt, Lummie’s and his colleagues’ efforts intensified."

An excerpt from the new #Atavist story, by Alexandra Marvar: https://longreads.com/2026/01/06/lummie-jenkins-alabama-atavist/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #History #America
#AmericanSouth #DeepSouth #Alabama #Racism #Sheriff #LawEnforcement #Journalism

I ask him what he’s on and if I can have any of it.

Cowboy Jesus In The Deep South Ken
Tabitha Giddings

#Poetry #TabithaGiddings #Cowboy #Jesus #DeepSouth #TheInterpretersHouse

https://theinterpretershouse.org/giddings-84

Hype for the Future 33A: Texas State Fair Satellites

Apart from the mainstream Texas State Fair on the eastern side of the City of Dallas, serving approximately two million people as of the 2025 session. The satellite fairs of Texas, typically serving anywhere from 125,000 to 250,000 people, are located in Abilene (West Texas), Tyler (East Texas), Denton (North Texas), and Beaumont (South Texas).

@kubikpixel

https://youtu.be/sqSA-SY5Hro?si=sUmLGU55KmxIWUAS

#country #deepsouth

#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #Medicaid #DeepSouth

From NPR.org: Medicaid cuts could hit Southern states like Louisiana hard : Shots - Health News

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/25/nx-s1-5584170/medicaid-cuts-south-louisiana-mississippi

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1921, #WarrenGHarding, an otherwise incompetent Republican president, became the first one in US history to deliver a speech criticizing #lynching in the #DeepSouth. Flash forward to 2025 and GOP evangelical podcasters are actually supporting slavery.

Great Vibes Great Vinyl

Something new and exciting happened in the Deep South of Cape Town: a vinyl only, afternoon, music get-together:

https://deepsouthgrooves.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/first-instalment-went-great/

#CapeTown #DeepSouth #dj #music #vinyl

#TropicalDepression #Hurricane #Florida #DeepSouth https://www.wpbf.com/article/florida-tracking-disturbance-gulf-us-coast-atlantic-hurricane-season/65245206?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email%20-%20Morning%20Headlines&utm_source=68651f423ff6b3db552effe887652fb4&brzu=fc96229e35580281413791437cca2979d5fd13757c887c7be63d71dfa29fb378&lctg=671c5b61151fec0061f1767d

Discovering Western Alabama with Geospatial Analysis Daya

Using tiles with map data from OpenStreetMap contributors, novaTopFlex (as geoTopFlex) has been able to identify rural settlement patterns in the western stretches of the State of Alabama. With QGIS to create polygons of land area dependent on the context of a certain setting, numerous regions had been interpreted as quite rural, particularly based on their road networks and highway color codes. The state-maintained road network density in these parts of Alabama (and into neighboring […]

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/05/25/discovering-western-alabama-with-geospatial-analysis-daya/