In a survey on news usage and trust held in the United States in May 2019, ** percent of respondents stated that they occasionally got news from a local newspaper. Another ** percent said that they got their news from a local paper in their area every day, however ** percent never access news this way, preferring to keep up to date via watching TV or using the internet.

Southerners tend to slip through the cracks between state surveys, which are unreliable for generalizing to the region, on the one hand, and national sample surveys, which usually contain too few Southerners to allow detailed examination, on the other. Moreover, few surveys routinely include questions specifically about the South.

To remedy this situation, the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science and the Center for the Study of the American South sponsor a Southern regional survey, called the Southern Focus Poll. Respondents in both the South and Non-South are asked questions about: political preference; religion; demographic characteristics; the 1996 Olympics; Atlanta; the effectiveness of various government agencies; defining characteristics of the South; food.

All of the data sets from the Southern Focus Polls archived here are generously made available by the "https://odum.unc.edu/" Target="_blank">Odum Institute for Research in Social Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (IRSS).

Southerners tend to slip through the cracks between state surveys, which are unreliable for generalizing to the region, on the one hand, and national sample surveys, which usually contain too few Southerners to allow detailed examination, on the other. Moreover, few surveys routinely include questions specifically about the South.

To remedy this situation, the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science and the Center for the Study of the American South sponsor a Southern regional survey, called the Southern Focus Poll. Respondents in both the South and Non-South are asked questions about: political preference; religion; demographic characteristics; the 1996 Olympics; Atlanta; the effectiveness of various government agencies; defining characteristics of the South; food.

All of the data sets from the Southern Focus Polls archived here are generously made available by the "https://odum.unc.edu/" Target="_blank">Odum Institute for Research in Social Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (IRSS).

Southerners tend to slip through the cracks between state surveys, which are unreliable for generalizing to the region, on the one hand, and national sample surveys, which usually contain too few Southerners to allow detailed examination, on the other. Moreover, few surveys routinely include questions specifically about the South.

To remedy this situation, the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science and the Center for the Study of the American South sponsor a Southern regional survey, called the Southern Focus Poll. Respondents in both the South and Non-South are asked questions about political preference, comparisons of Southerners and non-Southerners, interaction with family members, values which are taught to children, leisure activities, care for the environment, Southern food, and basic demographic information.

All of the data sets from the Southern Focus Polls archived here are generously made available by the "https://odum.unc.edu/" Target="_blank">Odum Institute for Research in Social Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (IRSS).