About

The Southern Crescent project by the Center for a Better South is an effort to draw attention to underserved areas of the American South to help coordinate better delivery of services to the area’s people.

This Web site provides weekly looks at communities in the Crescent to help people better understand challenges in the region.  You can help by donating money to bolster our efforts or, if you live in the Crescent, submitting pictures of people and places throughout the area.

The Crescent

The Southern Crescent is a geographic area that stretches from the Tidewater part of eastern Virgina southward through the Carolinas along Interstate 95.  It then turns west through Georgia and lower Alabama before curling northwesterly to the Mississippi Delta.  Home to millions, this soft underbelly of the American South has been underserved for generations.  It has a higher than normal incidence of poverty, unemployment and health problems that stretch through nine states.