Amurrica Series: Boy Scouts Reconsidering Ban on Gays
BRA “The Christian socialists are beautifully and energetically collaborating with the infidel socialists and abolitionists to bring about this millennium. They also are divided into […]
Culture
Gay Marriage Supporters Target Dixie
Dixie This landed in my inbox not even thirty seconds after publishing the previous blog entry on the response to gun control in the South […]
The New Civil War: Abortion, Gay Marriage, Gun Control
Dixie According to Andrew O’Hehir at Salon, we are in “the new civil war” between the “neo-Confederacy” (Dixie and the Interior West) and the “neo-Union” […]
Review: The Other Irish
Dixie Karen F. McCarthy’s The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America is a sweeping social history of the Scots-Irish that focuses on their contributions […]
“Buckwild” Premiere
West Virginia The “Jersey Shore” of West Virginia premiered on MTV last night: Note: This is the latest entry in a series of redneck and […]
Scots-Irish Project: Religion and the Frontier Experience
Dixie Here are some excerpts from The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America which sheds light on how Scots-Irish Presbyterians evolved into Baptists and […]
Scots-Irish Project: The Roots of America’s Gun Culture
Dixie As House and Senate Democrats move forward with gun control legislation today in the 113th Congress, it is worth reflecting on why the Scots-Irish who […]
Northern Honor vs. Southern Honor
United States, 1850 Great stuff … it sheds light on the 313Chris vs. Stonelifter feud. Southern honor: Welcome back to our series on manly honor. […]
Scots-Irish Project: John C. Calhoun’s Family Background
South Carolina Here’s an excerpt from Karen McCarthy’s The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America: “Like Rankin, John Caldwell Calhoun was descended from […]
English Youth Declare War on Cultural Marxism
Britain H/T Jackson I’ve seen the French one … now there is an English one.
“Snoop Lion”: Why I Am Not Voting For Romney
BRA The artist formerly known as “Snoop Dogg” has released a list of reasons that explains why he is voting for Barack Obama instead of […]
North Star Project: The Repeal of Northern Anti-Miscegenation Laws
American North OD has spent the last several months exhaustively researching the shared racial history of the South and the Caribbean. While that research project […]
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 […]
Slavery and Moral Sentiments
Rome Here’s an excerpt from David Brion Davis’ Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World about slavery in Ancient Rome. […]
Amurrica Series: U.S. Soccer Team Booed In Los Angeles
California H/T Vox I can’t say that I blame the Mexicans in Los Angeles for booing the U.S. team for the umpteenth time … why […]
Chick-fil-A and Southern Identity
Georgia BRA’s lesbian Kim Severson is right: the Chick-fil-A protests are reminiscent of massive resistance during the Civil Rights Movement. Homophobia is the new “racism.” […]
National Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day Strikes a Nerve in Alabama
Alabama The Council of Conservative Citizens has long wondered what it would take to shake White Christian conservatives out of their complacency and start a […]
Review: 2012 League of the South National Conference
Alabama As everyone knows by now, I actually did manage to attend the 2012 League of the South National Conference. This conference was held nearby […]
The WASP Question – Again
New York David Brooks takes a whack at this … “Through most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Protestant Establishment sat atop the American […]
Amurrica Series: Episcopal Church Votes to Allow Transgender Ministers
New York Here’s the future of the Southern Baptists and the Presbyterians: July 8, 2012|10:00 am A day after a legislative body of the Episcopal […]
Amurrica Series: Barney Frank’s Wedding
Massachusetts It is a strange land full of strange people who have little in common with us: Note: Secession threads flaring up at Kosher Republic […]
Andy Griffith Passes Away
It is with great sadness and with great love that we report the death of the actor/authentic Southern comedian Andy Griffith. American television has been […]
Mark Potok Flipping Out Over League of the South
Alabama Here’s the link to the great Michael Hill essay at Dixienet: “By the grace of God, the philosophies and institutions of Christian liberty are […]
Amurrica Series: Django Unchained Trailer
Dixie Let’s recap: (1) Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter – Confederates are bloodsucking vampires, Abraham Lincoln is a vampire hunter, who is himself turned into a […]
Amurrica Series: The Green Lantern Is Gay
DC Comics Last summer, the controversy was over why wasn’t The Green Lantern black in the year 2011. Now it turns out The Green Lantern […]
Geert Wilders on Glenn Beck
GBTV Glenn Beck considers Geert Wilders a hero:
Caribbean Project: Origins of the Deep South
South Carolina H/T SNN Palmetto Patriot is plugging away at our Caribbean Project and has turned up an important find about the Barbados connection in […]
Buchanan Interview: Suicide of a Superpower
United States H/T VDARE Pat Buchanan interviewed about the disintegration of BRA and his book that was labelled “unfit for national dialogue” by MSNBC: Note: […]
Confederate History Month 2012: A 1950s View of the Southern Plantation System
Dixie H/T Civil War Memory The plantation system is also responsible for creating our sense of racial consciousness. “White skin privilege” is really a type […]
Norwegians Sing “Children of the Rainbow”
Norway Hitler was justified in conquering this country. Lillebjoern Nilsen’s “Children of the Rainbow,” a Marxist song that Anders Breivik hates, is a Norwegian rendition of […]
Confederate History Month 2012: Editors Make War
Dixie The following excerpts come from Editors Make War: Southern Newspapers in the Secession Crisis. This is a taste of Confederate nationalism taken from the […]
Creating a Confederate Kentucky
Kentucky This looks interesting … might review this book next month. Kentucky seceded from the Union after the War Between the States. “Marshall traces the […]