Quick note regarding swept yards:
 
SKIP STEWART-ABERNATHY wrote:
>
> Hi yall.  Swept yards are common in Arkansas contexts, both
> African-American and Euro-American, both in the classic Arkansas Delta
> and SW with high African-American population and influence, and in the
> Arkansas Ozarks where Af-Ams present but practice also associated with
> Euro-Ams.
 
Skip's point about swept yards not falling along racial lines is a good
point. . . swept yards are also not a just a rural community practice. .
. yards were being swept in the Pinch district of downtown Memphis, TN
as late as the turn of the century.
 
ADIOS,
 
Jamie Brandon
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Jamie C. Brandon
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University of Arkansas
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