Olivia Paschal
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writer | phd candidate @uva_history , capitalism, business, labor & 20th century rural America | archives ed @facingsouth | asst editor @vqr | from arkansas.
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so proud of this & thrilled that the project is finally complete!
We are thrilled to announce the completion of the Southern Exposure archives project! Visit the Southern Exposure webpage to explore a treasure trove of articles and issues spanning four decades.
Check out the link below:
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as you all may remember, the state of Virginia did not deploy cops like this to UVA/Charlottesville when there were Nazis on campus
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will it be “the single most devastating setback for women’s reproductive freedoms nationwide”?? will it really??
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i’ve tried!!!! so hard!!! and yet!!!!
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here is what I have to say about these two maps: the first one lacks a ton of context that the second one includes. if you're using the first map to make sweeping judgments about the South, please rethink. I'll explain.
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yes this is real, from a PAC, here’s yesterday’s too. also they keep getting past my spam filters!! what gives
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begging my fellow historians to stop with the “historian here” posting
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"Even as the U.S. government invested billions in white farmers, it continued to extract wealth from black farmers in the Delta." 98 percent of black agricultural landowners lost their farmland in the last century. Read
@fivefifths
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this is Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson waxing poetic about the glory days of his wrestling career in “very small town Bentonville, Arkansas” while he drives through Bentonville, Arkansas to sell his tequila brand til Walmart
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so yeah, things are bad in the South and are only going to get worse. but it's a very complex situation that is not helped by your "hur hur hur look at those idiots" takes.
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i cannot overstate how much of an overreaction this is. it is absurd to call out this kind of force for some TENTS
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there's a reason why so many of the places where distance traveled fell below 2 miles earlier are in cities. a lot of the South is rural, and, more importantly, a lot of places don't have access to essential goods and services (groceries, internet, healthcare) w/o travel.
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"that's not a misprint" lol can folks stop looking down their nose at places some of us gladly claim as home for two (2) seconds
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ah yes, my favorite genre: professor at [insert fancy school here] briefly descends from his ivory tower to [teach/research/observe] the hillbillies, solves partisanship.
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This is a stunning story on the gap in how the USDA talks to farmers about climate change (barely, if at all) and how farmers are experiencing climate change on the ground (in increasingly devastating ways):
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this article is written by a former Tyson PR person who quotes one of his former colleagues at length with no disclaimer.
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there's also a policy reason, obviously: Southern governors and, in many cases, Southern mayors have been slow to institute stay-at-home orders. plus, you're dealing with a lack of information access: the rural South has some of the lowest rates of internet access in the country.
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Here's a visual on how many Black Southerners have been elected to Congress since the Civil War. Purple is House, gold is Senate.
If Raphael Warnock wins election in Georgia tonight, it would double the number of Black Southerners who have been elected to the Senate since 1900. My story from just before the November elections:
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when you’re from New York and your only frame of reference for the entire rural south is the 2020 election map
On the "hick-libs." 🧵
Several years ago I was shocked when I heard that a Texas country singer whose music I really enjoyed was a Beto O'Rourke-supporter (Ryan Bingham). For the life of me, I couldn't understand how someone associated with rural West Texas could be on the left.
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if you made it all the way to the end of this thread, please read this story.
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More than 4,600 Arkansas poultry processing workers have contracted COVID-19. At least 22 have died. I spent the last several weeks poring through public records trying to understand why none of the state's plants ever shut down. Here's my investigation /1
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here is the PAC, now I'm logging off for real
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all of which becomes much clearer in the second map. you can see that **relative** rates of travel have fallen in Southern counties at ~same level as many Western counties, which is context you don't get at all in the first map.
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I was on campus at UVA last night and there was a party on the Range that was far more disruptive (loud music, alcohol, crowd) than the encampment (quiet, prepping for rain, students studying) was. Calling in state police is so beyond anything this situation required.
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the allegations in this lawsuit are horrifying
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I should say: both of those maps were NYT maps and I think the accompanying story is actually great.
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if y’all want to see the same level of infrastructure, organizing, and intense civic engagement efforts in other Southern states as you’re seeing come to fruition in Georgia, consider investing in the work that is ALREADY being done on shoestring budgets
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some life news: July will be my last month as a full-time reporter at
@facingsouth
. I'm sad to leave a job that I've really loved, but excited for the next step: I'm moving cross-country (again) to start a PhD in History at UVA in the fall!
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UVA changed its policy on recreational tents this morning *after* telling students they were in violation of policy and threatening to send facilities to take them down
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Warnock's apparent victory makes him just the second Black Senator elected from the South since Reconstruction.
Here's a visual on how many Black Southerners have been elected to Congress since the Civil War. Purple is House, gold is Senate.
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hear me out, you can do a photo series on Appalachia or the Ozarks without editing the photos to look "gritty" or "portentious" or "foreboding"
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in the most grad student thing ever, i’m with a friend who got maced (or whatever they were spraying) in the face today and went home after, eyes still burning, to finish an assignment due at midnight
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a hard thing about living in the South is folks can (& have) organize and organize and organize, and be hopeful cycle after cycle, but you break through so rarely. more often than not you lose bc of how entrenched the power structures of racism & the rich remain
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im trying so hard not to engage with the trolls but let it be known that the university of virginia pays graduate students $30,000 a year which is a little over $14/hour
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hello the South is having a bad time with this winter weather because we quite literally do not have the infrastructure to handle it. electric grids are the most immediate problem right now but even things like snowplows, salted roads, etc. are in short supply
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I wrote about the experience of watching the Waltons try to transform the Ozarks into “Oz,” and how unabated development and growth impacts who can afford to live in northwest Arkansas. for
@dwell
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A mourner places a flower on a shrine in memory of poultry workers who have passed away from COVID-19 at a vigil tonight in Springdale.
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the average reader has no idea that the author and source on this piece worked together as recently as last summer on Tyson’s PR response to COVID outbreaks in their plants
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if you are writing stories about workers getting sick at meatpacking plants, please spend at least the same amt of space talking about the workers and their families as you do about the supply chain.
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when I want to know about rural America the first place I turn is McKinsey
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Their list of where people are still traveling the most only includes counties of >500,000 people (for context, I reported a story on a rural county of just 2,000 people last year), and does include a lot of urban Southern counties.
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to add one last thing: healthcare in the rural South is in a very, very bad state right now. if you're in the rural South and know of a hospital or clinic closing near you and/or healthcare workers being furloughed, please DM or email me (in bio).
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this map is Good bc it gives the Ozarks our own region AS WE SHOULD BE
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I keep coming back to this single sentence of Ta-Nehisi Coates' testimony on H.R. 40 today, but the whole thing is worth your time.
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As a lot of folks have noticed, the pandemic is starting to shift South. My humble plea to national pundits & journalists: when you inevitably have to cover sickness, trauma, death here, don’t be an asshole.
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one thing I believe deep to my core is that neither major party has answers for many of the South's poor & working class voters, and there's a huge opportunity for third parties or independent candidates who are actually willing to talk about solutions to widening inequality
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i took a whole class about economists pretending to be historians when i could have just read this tweet
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some (probably unsurprising) personal news: I'm moving to Arkansas for the next several months, digging further into some of my recent reporting around poultry companies & the pandemic but also reporting from Arkansas & surrounding states as the election nears.
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New: I spoke to family members of two Tyson workers in Northwest Arkansas who are sick from COVID-19. They both told me Tyson threatened to withhold hazard pay if their family members didn't come into work less than a week after receiving test results.
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karlie kloss calling bentonville the midwest and getting roasted (by all my friends) in the comments section we love to see it
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my humble suggestion for national outlets fundraising to send a reporter to Georgia is to hire a freelancer who already lives in Georgia. it's a pandemic! there are so many capable folks in the state already!
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I am seeing some Folks on the Timeline saying [insert city here] doesn’t count as the South because of its politics and I am once again here to remind you that this is not how geography or regions work
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Revisiting
@RevDrBarber
's obituary of Julian Bond, who "took the attack on him as an opportunity for turning the Southern U.S. anti-racism movement into a Southern hemisphere movement against the racist policies of the U.S. and European nations."
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Here, I transcribed that journey of a speech for y'all:
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after 2 years, today is my last day as a full-time reporter at
@facingsouth
. I'm going to take a break from this website for a while before I start classes next month, but before I go I wanted to share some of the stories I did in this job that were especially meaningful to me.
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Tim Longo just said, among other things, that people who were tear gassed were treated by "medical staff" on site. That is not true. They were treated by students and community members running around handing out water bottles.
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A facet of the Walter Hussman-UNC situation that's been lingering in my mind is that Hussman has published the largest newspaper in Arkansas for decades. He's been able to shape what's understood as "newsworthy" in this state since before I've been alive.
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me when I have to explain to yet another person why Arkansas football has been so bad for so long
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Happy holidays,
@presjimryan
! My name is Olivia & I’m a grad worker in the history department. Because of the missing stipend payments, I don't have $1000 for my travel expenses to see family for the holidays.
Pres. Ryan: UVA needs to
#CutTheChecks
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and here we have the governor of Arkansas fighting with the dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service on Twitter
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who is understood as threats to the established order and who is not seems very clear
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everyone should care about the obvious non-sustainability of our agriculture system, and everyone should care that the federal government is determined to turn a blind eye.
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The Mueller report is super, super, super long, and we know you don't have time to read all 450 pages. Here are the highlights:
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glad he discovered that even people down here in the sticks have a nuanced sense of ethics! confused why he needed to teach a class to tell him that!
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The bill that would ban the use of 1619 project curriculum in Arkansas schools has failed in committee.
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The rural South has many, many, many healthcare deserts—especially in states that didn't expand Medicaid. I talked to rural doctors and health care providers across the region about how they're prepping for COVID-19 with no resources and no cashflow.
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when I have to decide between laundry and vacuuming
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just got off the phone with the press sec for Tom Cotton’s opponent, libertarian Ricky Dale Harrington, Jr., who tells me the campaign has raised more $$ in the last 18 days than in the previous 6 months
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Joe Biden might be the current frontrunner, but everyone on tonight's debate stage was measuring themselves against Bernie Sanders. From
@elainejgodfrey
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Chikin Melele, Arkansas's Marshallese newspaper, is translating and serializing my investigation into Arkansas poultry plants. the first installment is out today in Marshallese:
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someone having a medical episode or seizure in the encampment, crowd has flagged EMT down but cops are doing nothing to facilitate entry or get medical assistance
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About 20 George’s workers have just walked out of the company’s live haul plant in Springdale to protest the plant’s lack of social distancing measures
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if I were a news organization looking for summer interns I would be hiring from the University of Arkansas journalism students running
@ArkansasCovid
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i'm once again looking for stories by Southern journalists/writers about the South to highlight on the
@facingsouth
account over the holidays! if there's a story you're proud of writing this year, or one you loved by someone else, reply w/ a link on this thread
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a fun first this morning: finding a story I wrote on the same B&N newsstands I used to stock
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Here is an email from Dean Christa Acampora to UVA faculty and graduate instructors which acknowledges that those arrested and receiving No Trespassing Orders "included bystanders and others who were simply transiting through the site unaware of what was transpiring"
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“The girl, who turns 14 this month, and her two brothers, aged 12 and 15, all worked at the plant earlier this year and weren't going to school, according to people familiar with their employment.”
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asked my mother for the family pumpkin pie recipe and she sent this
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young journalists, come work with me
@facingsouth
! the Julian Bond Fellowship is a 9-month PAID program supporting emerging writers covering issues of equity and democracy in the South. plus you get to live in Durham!
@WritersofColor
@NABJ
@NAHJ
@aaja
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It's been said, but the only reason Georgia is in play is the infrastructure & organizing built by folks on the ground, including Stacey Abrams & the coalition she's built + folks who have been organizing locally for a long time. It's possible in other Southern states too.
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I know this is the least important thing happening today but the abbreviation for Arkansas is AR, not AK (Alaska)
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not to enter Truck Discourse, but I am 5'11" (i.e., not short!) and have to literally jump to get into the newer models of trucks. why does anyone need this?? also old trucks look cooler, this is a simple fact
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good morning I’m mad all over again about how shallow the Reconstruction history I got in school was
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something that would make opinion pages infinitely better *across the board* is if they were held to the same fact-checking standards print mag pieces generally are. would keep us from wasting our time on vacuous, posturing pieces & might actually improve public discourse idk
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News organizations should put coverage of the insurrection outside their paywalls. It's vital to have accurate information out there; if you paywall it, people will end up on the free conspiracy websites where disinformation thrives.
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in the run-up to the 2008 election, I had a teacher show us pictures of Barack Obama altered to make it look like he was Muslim. the implication (which was often explicitly stated) was that because he was "Muslim," he was anti-American. this was in class! in school!
Overall, Americans took 9/11 pretty calmly. Notably, there wasn't a mass outbreak of anti-Muslim sentiment and violence, which could all too easily have happened. And while GW Bush was a terrible president, to his credit he tried to calm prejudice, not feed it 2/
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how is this a breaking news alert when everyone in this state has known what she was up to since she moved back two full years ago
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