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        On transgender rights, immigrant protections, minimum wage increases and more, Southern cities are facing escalating efforts by state and federal officials to block local progress. 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
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        This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 12 No. 3, "Painting South." Find more from that issue here.