A guide to a progressive South

The University of South Carolina's Megan Brock provided a guide to the progressive South in a column ("The South Will Rise Again") posted this week on Campus Progress.org. Prominently featured: The Center for a Better South:

When I sent in my first tuition check to the University of South Carolina and picked up and moved from Houston, TX, I felt I had sealed my fate, forever becoming one of those “darned liberals” in a region widely considered to be a safe haven for the most conservative voices in the nation – the South. According to Andy Brack, President of the Center for a Better South (a progressive think tank based in Charleston, SC ), my misgivings, however common, were misconceptions. “It’s not Jethro and the Dukes of Hazard and grits. The South now is a black, white, brown and yellow society.” He then elaborated, “We need to understand more deeply how this society is functioning if we seek to make progressive changes in it.”

Take a look at the article. You might be surprised to find more in your Southern state that's progressive than you realized.