Red America Rising
Red America In The Wall Street Journal, Joel Kotkin expands on his argument of an emerging divide between an economically ascendant but politically declining Red America […]
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American Thinker on The Tragic City
Alabama American Thinker has an unusually candid article on what Paul Kersey has labeled The Tragic City: “Birmingham, Alabama is considered by many to be […]
Rainbow Confederates Grovel Before NAACP
Tennessee The SCV has joined forces with the NAACP to denounce the Klan for holding a rally in Memphis: “Lee Millar of the Sons of […]
Southern Poverty Pimps
Dixie Michael Lind has a new anti-Southern article out in Salon: “Contemporary American politics cannot be understood apart from the North-South divide in the U.S., […]
Steve Sailer on Northern White Voters
VDARE Here’s a link to an excellent analysis of the 2012 election by Steve Sailer: “Here are some other north central states where Romney came […]
Disingenuous Rainbow Confederates
Alabama Connie Chastain writes: “I have to wonder why he needs me as an excuse to rant and rave about black folks. And I again […]
Shacks and Hovels: White Guilt and The Demise of Southern Heritage
Alabama Connie Chastain writes: “That deliberately doesn’t tell you what my purpose was in bringing up those past living conditions in that place, although I […]
How Rainbow Confederates Lost The Culture War
Dixie Connie Chastain writes: “That, of course, is not true. First, there’s no such thing as Rainbow Confederates …” A “Rainbow Confederate” is someone who […]
Rainbow Confederates React To Memphis
Tennessee Connie Chastain has responded to my Memphis post: “For him, they’re black people. For me, they’re leftist leaders and culture changers — people who either […]
Memphis Renames Three Confederate Parks
Tennessee H/T SNN Here’s the latest outrage in the Southern heritage wars: “MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The City Council voted Monday to change the names of […]
How The South Will Rise Again
Dixie In Forbes, demographer Joel Kotkin sees the Sunbelt South becoming even more dominant in economic power as the “new breed of carpetbaggers” flee the […]
Review: America Aflame
United States, 1834-1876 David Goldfield’s America Aflame: How The Civil War Created a Nation is a sweeping antiwar take on the Civil War era and a […]
SNN Podcast: The Rise of the New South
South Carolina Here’s the link to the SNN podcast with Palmetto Patriot about my review of James C. Cobb’s The South and America Since World […]
Review: The South and America Since World War II
Dixie If you are a Southern conservative who wants to learn more about the origins of the Sunbelt South, don’t waste your time on James […]
Robert E. Lee Day 2013: Remembering Robert E. Lee
Virginia The title of this talk by Professor Gary Gallagher is “Robert E. Lee Confronts Defeat: Duty in the Wake of Appomattox.”
Touré vs. S.E. Cupp: Southern Secessionists Are “Racist”
MSNBC Just sent this to Touré on Twitter: @Touré You’re right about lots of Southern White people wanting nothing to do with Obama’s America. #DixieRepublic […]
Second Amendment Was Passed To Protect Slavery
District of Corruption Do you remember our old friend Thom Hartmann? Note: Progressives are salivating over the possibility of repealing the Bill of Rights. They […]
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 Cost of the Union: White House Identifies 19 Executive Actions on Gun Control
District of Corruption The Obama administration has come up with 19 different ways it can unilaterally take away your guns. Note: Rush Limbaugh recently discussed […]
Yes to Independence 2.0
Missouri Here’s the second installment in the “Dixie, yes” campaign: Note: Wyoming is practicing nullification of federal gun control laws.
White House: “Our States Remain United”
District of Corruption H/T SNN Editor’s Note: I found Obama’s response to the secession petitions in my inbox when I got home last night. Jon […]
League of the South Statement: Obama’s Gun Control Threat
Alabama Editor’s Note: I’m crossposting this here from the League of the South Facebook page. The Obama administration is threatening to use Executive Orders to […]
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 […]
SNN: “Yes” To Independence
South Carolina SNN makes a video based on Robert Oculus III’s suggestion for a “yes” to independence campaign:
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 […]
Rainbow Confederacy Resources: Robert E. Lee on Negroes
Virginia I found these two gems of Confederate wisdom on the League of the South Facebook page: “Wherever you find the negro, everything is going down […]
The Cost of the Union: Sectionalism and the “Fiscal Cliff”
District of Corruption As one might have expected, the Republicans kicked off 2013 by caving on the “fiscal cliff” in Washington. Here’s the House vote on […]
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 […]
Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry
Dixie The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry is Volume 11 of a 24 part series sponsored by the Center for the Study of […]
It’s Time For Independence
South Carolina H/T SNN