washingtonpost.com – Many of the hallmarks of Southern style are still going strong, 50 years after the first issue of Southern Living magazine in 1966.

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You can see evidence of this in the 2016 Southern Living Idea House, which opens Saturday just outside of Birmingham, Ala. Here, in a classic Southern cottage with a wrap-around porch, designers with roots in this region were asked to create settings inspired by the past 50 years. Read +