The Latest Breaking News from the American South

Volkswagen workers in Tennessee voted decisively to become a union shop, according to election results released Friday, marking the first victory for organized labor at a foreign-owned auto plant in the American South.

Volkswagen employees in Tennessee will begin casting ballots Wednesday in a vote that could make theirs the first foreign carmaker to unionize in the American South, expanding gains made by organized labor in the auto heartland of Detroit.

The American South is experiencing a population boom, led by Texas, with economic growth and job opportunities driving the surge.

A new museum Alabama tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement