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        It's no secret that the demographics of the South are rapidly changing. Here at Facing South we have been closely following the new, more racially and ethnically diverse South that is emerging -- and shifting more quickly than anywhere else in the country.	
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
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        										 							Q1 2007							Q1 2006							% INCR											ExxonMobile							$9.280B							$8.400B							10%											Chevron							$4.715B
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
          
        
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
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        Political prognosticators Isaac Wood and Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia report today that there will be up to five special elections for the U.S. House in 2007 -- two of them in the South.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
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        The Associated Press has identified five coastal areas of the United States that are particularly vulnerable to hurricane disasters -- and four of them are in the South.	
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
          
        
        
          
              
            
            
            
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        At a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on hurricane readiness held earlier this month, Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) asked Federal Emergency Management Agency Director David Paulison to address complaints that trailers housing Katrina and Rita survivors have dangerous levels of formaldehyde, the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger reports:
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        May 31, 2007 -
        
  
        As Chris noted here yesterday, former Tennessee Senator and actor Fred Thompson has all but made it official that he is running for president in 2008.	
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
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        That's the question the folks over at Citizens for Tax Justice pondered recently on their Talking Taxes blog.