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Podcast: Salvation South
Episode: Ten Thousand Souths: Preserving Southern Folklore
Description: Since a half-century ago, colleges and universities around the South have established centers to study the culture of our region. The Center for Appalachian Studies in Kentucky. The Center for the Study of the American South in North Carolina. The Center for the Study of Southern Culture in Mississippi. Salvation South magazine editor Chuck Reece has some thoughts about why preserving Southern folklore matters.