Southern Focus Poll
Southerners tend to slip through the cracks between state surveys,
which are unreliable for generalizing to the region, on the one
hand, and national sample surveys, which usually contain too few
Southerners to allow detailed examination, on the other. And few
surveys routinely include questions specifically about the South.
To remedy this situation, Odum Institute for Research in Social
Science and CSAS sponsored a Southern regional survey, called the
Southern Focus Poll. Each fall and spring, a random sample of approximately
800 adult Southerners (residents of the states of Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) and 400
non-Southerners are interviewed by telephone. They are asked questions
about economic conditions in their communities; cultural issues
such as Southern accent, the Confederate flag, and "Dixie";
race relations; feelings toward migrants to the South; and characteristics
of Southerners vs. Northerners. Click here to search the Southern
Focus Poll data online.
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