Introduction from the Editorial Team

Abstract

[...]one such article in this issue details the effects of rurality in Tennessee relating to the spread of COVID-19. [...]this approach can better describe uncertainty within spatial data, particularly where spatial autocorrelation is present. [...]when Northerners visit such places, they are "infected" by the Lost Cause and carry it with them North and to their social circles. Since most of the Confederate monuments are in the South, Klein argues that the monuments themselves are not enough to explain this diffusion - without the Northern visitors (who serve as hosts), the Lost Cause mythology could not spread beyond the South.