Posted: the campaign sign landscape,race, and political participation in Mississippi |
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Authors: | J.O. Joby Bass |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Geography and Geology , The University of Southern Mississippi , Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA joby@usm.edu |
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Abstract: | Cultural landscapes offer potential insights into cultural processes. As a cultural/political landscape element, the domestic campaign sign is linked to a variety of socio-cultural and political processes. Examination of the geographical distribution of 2004 presidential election campaign signs posted throughout the town of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, illustrates that race is a factor in understanding who chooses to post signs. Historically, limitations on political participation in the South would have included use of landscape for communication, imposing a sort of metacommunicative landscape hegemony. Further, patterns of sign postings and voter turnout indicate that both activities are forms of political participation that are embraced differently by different social groups. |
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Keywords: | cultural landscape campaign sign race political participation Mississippi |
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