Patrik Jonsson is the Monitor's Georgia bureau chief. His beat includes much of the South, including Florida and the Carolinas. Aside from covering breaking news, his work often focuses on how core American ideals -- from civil rights to free speech, from gun rights to environmental conservation -- intersect in the nation's most socially conservative region.
He is based on Tybee Island, Georgia.
Before he joined the Monitor as a staff writer in 2005, he worked as a correspondent for the paper for several years from Raleigh, North Carolina. He previously wrote for a variety of daily and bi-weekly newspapers including the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Press and the Deming, New Mexico, Headlight.
Languages spoken: English and Swedish.
Reach him at jonssonp@csmonitor.com
Stories by Patrik Jonsson
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- Trump promised to bring jobs to the Rust Belt. The Sun Belt may get them instead.
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