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The Bitter Southerner Podcast

Across the Borderline

The Bitter Southerner Podcast

GPB Digital

Society & Culture

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

"Southern culture" is impossible to define because it's always evolving, thanks to immigration. As new people arrive, new ideas go into the gumbo that is our culture. We take a trip to the "Ellis Island of the South," serve up some Brazilian barbecue, and jam out to a Southern mariachi band.

Transcript

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0:00.0

George's DBHEDD is urging people to store and lock away all medications to prevent theft and keep them away from children and pets.

0:08.0

Old medications can be disposed at Dropbox locations.

0:12.0

Dropbox locations can be found at opioid response. info.

0:15.6

It's the bitter southerner Podcast from Georgia Public Broadcasting in the magazine I edit,

0:27.0

The Bitter Southerner.

0:28.4

My name is Chuck Reese and this is the fourth episode of our first season on this episode how immigrants and refugees

0:35.2

are adapting to and changing the South today.

0:40.5

The recording studio where I'm sitting right now in the middle of Atlanta, Georgia

0:47.8

is about 10 miles west of where I live in a little town called Clarkston.

0:52.4

There are 13,000 of us in Clarkson and were easy to miss on a map,

0:56.3

but my neighbors and I describe our little town as the most ethnically diverse square mile in America.

1:02.4

It's a National Refugee Settlement Area, which means

1:05.2

folks from all over the world come to live here. Clarkston is their first

1:10.1

American home. Over the years, my little town has welcomed more than 60,000 refugees.

1:16.0

Here are two refugee voices recorded at a coffee shop just a block from my house.

1:21.4

My name is Heval Mohammed Kelly.

1:25.0

I moved to the United States two weeks after 9-11 2001.

1:29.0

My name is Auroy Joseph, and I am a Syrian refugee. I do still have friends in Syria and I miss them but in Syria in Syria's terror. In Syria there is war.

1:46.0

In Syria there is war.

1:49.0

In Syria, there is war. Yevall and Nauru's are years apart, but they share a close bond.

1:58.0

Both are from Syria, but they now call Georgia home.

2:01.0

Our producer met them in 2017 when

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