Publications
The Center for a Better South offers a wide array of publications related to public policy and the American South. Annually, the Center seeks to issue a book or major paper of policy ideas on a major issue to help Southern lawmakers grapple with them. Among our highlights:
- 2011: The Center is exploring policy proposals on two major areas — reducing poverty and increasing safety in Southern communities. The South has high rates of poverty and violence, which make these big areas on which we plan to focus.
- 2010: The Center promoted its Agenda for a Better South, launched the BetterGulf.org photo blog and developed “Ideas for a Better Gulf,” a series of big ideas on Gulf restoration following the April oil disaster off the Louisiana coast.
- 2009: The Center developed a special Briefing Book of more than 60 statistics for each Southern state in anticipation of its ThinkSouth conference to develop the Agenda for a Better South.
- 2007: The Center published “Getting Greener: Progressive Environmental Ideas for the American South.” It also developed and published interviews with its FIVE QUESTIONS series with key leaders and thinkers.
- 2006: The Center published “Doing Better: Progressive Tax Reform for the American South.”
The Center, a non-profit, non-partisan tax-exempt organization, has been crafted in the spirit of the LQC Lamar Society, which was started in 1969 by “men and women who believed the South could achieve practical solutions to its problems, regardless of whether these men were liberal or conservative, white or black, Democrat or Republican, establishment or student.”
