Update: Secession Petitions
Dixie The secession petitions have now topped 25K in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina! Texas is leading the pack at 93,994 […]
American South
Nate Cohn: The Yankees Sunk Romney
BRA H/T Rich Lowry Here’s some more ammunition for neo-Confederates: a historic level of Whites in Dixie turned out to vote for two Yankees, one […]
Conservatism, Inc. Pushback Against Secession
Dixie (1) Some foreigner named Charles C.W. Cooke who writes for National Review has some great advice about secession for conservatives in the Deep South. […]
NorthEast Liberals Will Demand Release of Black Political Prisoners in Alabama!
With arrogant, NorthEast Liberals now expressing extreme hatred of all things White and Southern, it’s only a matter of time before Lib Dems in Vermont […]
Update: Secession Movement SOARING In The South
Dixie Here’s a link to the SNN podcast that I did this afternoon with Palmetto Patriot on the 2012 presidential election and the secessionist petitions […]
The 2012 Election: Comprehensive Southern State Wrap Up
Dixie A close analysis of the 2012 presidential election reveals that two distinct nations voted on Nov. 6. Mitt Romney was elected president of the […]
Secession Movement Spreads To Other States
BRA H/T Stormfront Texas Secession! Louisiana Secession! Tennessee Secession! Mississippi Secession! North Carolina Secession! Florida Secession! Georgia Secession! South Carolina Secession! Alabama Secession! Missouri Secession! […]
Dixie Rising
American South The partisan shift in the state legislatures, governorships, and congressional delegations is even more revealing than the 2012 presidential electoral map: “After this […]
State of the South: Projected 2012 House and Senate Races
American South I’ve used the NY Times 2010 House Map and the NY Times 2012 House Race Map to check for changes in the partisan […]
Andrew Sullivan: Confederacy Voting For Romney
American South If Virginia and Florida go for Romney, Andrew Sullivan claims “it’s the Confederacy.” More like the Golden Circle. Note: Romney has a 29 […]
SNN Podcast: The Demise of Southern White Democrats
South Carolina Here’s the link to the SNN podcast with Palmetto Patriot about the demise of the Southern White Democrat.
White Democrats Disappear From Deep South
American South We don’t even have to wait to election day … OD is confident enough to project that Mitt Romney will be elected president […]
Review: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
American South Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman’s 1974 book Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery is a mythbusting revisionist tour of […]
Slavery Myths: Southern Slavery and Human Development
American South This information comes from Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery: Life Expectancy Did you know that the typical slave born […]
Slavery Myths: Life Expectancy
American South Here’s the average life expectancy at birth for American slaves in 1850 compared to the life expectancy of various “free” populations around the […]
Slavery Myths: Refuting Hinton Helper
American South Here’s an excellent excerpt from Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery which eviscerates the economic argument for the abolition of […]
Slavery Myths: Slaves Spent Most of Their Time Picking Cotton
Antebellum South Slavery in the United States was nothing compared to the intensity of Cuban slavery where slaves commonly spent as much as 20 hours […]
The Modernization of Slavery
CSA, 1890 AD Andrew Hamilton has another excellent article on the Confederacy at Counter-Currents. While I mostly agree with his conclusions, I want to use […]
Caribbean Project: Visualizing The Plantation Complex
New World In The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex, Philip D. Curtin describes the geographic spread and extent of the slave plantation: “With […]
Caribbean Project: “Beyond The Line”
Barbados I’ve come across this phrase “beyond the line” several times during my research and have begun to realize its immense importance to understanding how […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
New World In Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of New World Slavery, David Brion Davis sets the American South within the international context of […]
Live Thread: Death and the Civil War
PBS H/T Crossroads In light of all our discussions about slavery and the War Between the States (aka The War To Prevent BRA), the new […]
Selma Blacks Outraged Over Replacement Forrest Bust
Alabama They stole the original bust in the middle of the night … now they are willing to die to stop its replacement. WSFA.com: News […]
Bob Dylan Interview: “Stigma of Slavery” Ruined America
Rolling Stone Bob Dylan has given an interview to Rolling Stone magazine in which he is widely quoted saying that the “stigma of slavery ruined […]
Lincoln (2012)
BRA I notice that Tommy Lee Jones is playing Thaddeus Stevens, the leader of the Black Republicans in the House, who was so radical that […]
The New Solid South
Dixie It is increasingly “solid red” depending on whether White Southerners are the majority or “solid blue” depending on whether blacks, Hispanics, and carpetbags are […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
Caribbean Sea Robert E. May’s The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861 recounts the story of the South’s vision of Manifest Destiny in the […]
Re: “White Dream Chaser”
Dixie I rarely feed the trolls but this little turd dropped in the comments is an opportunity to highlight the differences between White Nationalism and […]
The Balls Are Rolling …
United States, 1856 Here’s a Republican political cartoon from the 1856 presidential election (replace it with Obama/Biden vs. Romney/Ryan and it could just as easily […]
Is It Time To Finally Let The South Secede?
Alternet H/T Lew Kievsky’s old nemesis Joshua Holland has a new article on letting the South secede. This guy has written several articles attacking the […]
SNN Podcast: Caribbean Project
South Carolina Here are some of the topics we discussed in this podcast: (1) How “the South” is really “the North.” (2) Dixie as a […]
Derb on Lincoln’s Colonization Plan
VDARE Here’s the latest installment of Derb as Civil War buff. Note: Lincoln wasn’t serious about African colonization. For decades, the colonization movement had always […]