The Republicans have leaned into good ole fashioned voter repression, propaganda, Black disenfranchisement, carcerality, and state terror to maintain its stronghold. This is the Southern strategy, a tactic that has served white supremacist, right-wing agendas since the crushing of Radical Reconstruction in the 19th century.
Tea Troutman
Tea S. Troutman (they/them) is an abolitionist, digital propagandist, editor, and critical urban theorist born in Macon, Georgia, and currently calls Atlanta home. Tea is a Ph.D. student in the Geography, Environment, and Society department at the University of Minnesota, and also holds a B.S. in Economics and a Master's of Interdisciplinary Studies in Urban Studies, both from Georgia State University. Tea's work draws heavily on their experience as a long-time community organizer in Atlanta, Georgia, and their research interests broadly consider urbanism and critical urban theory, afropessmism, black geographies, and black cultural studies. Their dissertation project is a critique of Atlanta, "New South Urbanism," Anti-Blackness and the global circulation of the idea of the Black Mecca.
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