Caribbean Project: The Demise of Haiti’s Sugar Industry
Haiti In 1789, there were 288 sugar plantations in Haiti’s Northern Province, 314 sugar plantations in Haiti’s Western Province, and 191 sugar plantations in Haiti’s […]
Economy
The White Ghetto
Kentucky National Review has a new article on poor White Southerners in Greater Appalachia: “Owsley County, Ky. – There are lots of diversions in the Big […]
Florida’s Strawberry Industry
Florida Florida’s strawberry industry is another contributor to “Southern Demographic Displacement.” Here are the facts: 1.) 95 percent of the strawberries in Florida are grown […]
The Tomato Wars
Florida As we shift our attention to “Southern Demographic Displacement” in Florida, I have started researching the starring role that agribusiness has played in blocking […]
The Kingfish: Populist Champion of Poor Whites
Louisiana I’ve written extensively about the futility of putting all our time and money, hopes and dreams into trying to elect libertarian, economic conservatives like […]
Rand Paul Is Outraged That Apple Is Being Investigated For Offshoring and Tax Evasion
District of Corruption It’s a rare day when John McCain makes sense:
50 Years Forward: 155 White Guys, the 1901 Constitution, and Birmingham’s Prosperity
Alabama David Sher’s “Comeback Town” has weighed in on Alabama’s 1901 Constitution. The 155 White guys who penned the 1901 Constitution are accused of creating […]
Blacks vs. Mexicans In Georgia’s Onion Fields
Georgia As we explored last summer, free labor is unable to compete with slave labor in certain kinds of agriculture: Note: What incentive do black […]
50 Years Forward: The Good News Never Ends
Alabama I’m saving this comment here before it is deleted by the Al.com moderator: From 1960 to 2010, the population of Birmingham declined from 340,887 […]
50 Years Forward: Greensboro vs. Birmingham
Alabama 100 public officials and business leaders from Greensboro, NC recently came to Birmingham, AL on a trip to learn more about the best practices […]
Should Black People Run America’s Major Cities?
United States Al.com has linked to a useful study by the Brookings Institution which showcases America’s imploding major cities: Note: The outside perimeter of most […]
50 Years Forward: Rick & Bubba Show, Steven Hoyt, and Honda Indy Grand Prix
Alabama Final Update: The Birmingham City Council has approved $300,000 in funding for the Honda Indy Grand Prix: “BIRMINGHAM, Alabama –The Birmingham City Council has approved […]
50 Years Forward: Losing The MotoGP
Alabama OD’s probe into racial favoritism and public funding of sporting events in Birmingham, Alabama continues to turn up some interesting results with the assistance […]
50 Years Forward: Behind The Purple Drapes, Race and Sports In The Tragic City
Alabama In recent weeks, OD has been taking a closer look at Birmingham, Alabama, which is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the events that were […]
50 Years Forward: Selma Ranked Worst City For Business in Alabama
Alabama Fifty years after the Civil Rights Movement, Selma and Birmingham have been ranked among the worst cities for business in Alabama: “With every best […]
50 Years Forward: Birmingham Dumps Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama
Alabama It’s official. The Birmingham City Council, which leapt at the opportunity to support the scam that was Vulcan Bike Week, won’t be supporting the […]
Stockton Bankruptcy
California Here’s the latest domino to fall in “the collapse”: Note: Detroit, Jefferson County (AL), Prichard (AL), Vallejo, San Bernardino, Harrisburg, Iceland, Greece, Cyprus … […]
Vulcan Bike Week
Alabama In the previous article, we saw that the Birmingham City Council voted not to sign a contract with the promoters of the Honda Indy Grand Prix […]
50 Years Forward: Birmingham City Council Rejects Funding Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama
Alabama Paul Kersey of SBPDL.com recently published his latest book on Amazon, The Tragic City: Birmingham, 1963-2013, which tells the true story of how the City […]
Trends With Benefits
Alabama NPR investigates Greensboro in Hale County (AL) where 1 in 4 working age adults are receiving a $1,000 disability check a month: “In rural […]
Job Growth In Alabama Metros
Alabama David Sher, who runs The Comeback Town, has been making the argument for city-county consolidation in the Birmingham metro area on the basis that […]
The Tragic City: Metro Birmingham Ranked 197 of 200 Metro Areas
Alabama After poking around some more on David Sher’s hilarious DWL website The Comeback Town, I noticed that Birmingham was recently ranked 197 out of 200 […]
Kunstler vs. North
New York Gary North: “My objection to Kunstler begins with the title of his website. I choose not to repeat it here. You can click […]
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 […]
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., […]
Buchanan on Free Trade Deals
VDARE Do you remember the free trade agreement with South Korea that Obama signed in his first term and which he promised would create American […]
Live Thread: BRA’s State of the Union 2013
District of Corruption In his 2013 State of the Union Address, Obama announced that he is working on the “Trans-Pacific Partnership” free trade agreement and […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Mississippi: The Color of EBT
Mississippi Here’s another excerpt from Chuck Thompson’s Better Off Without ‘Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession which is part of a roundtable discussion on […]
Republic of Dixie: Livestock and Crops
Dixie In terms of chicken broilers, chicken eggs, rice, and cotton among other things, the South disproportionately contributes to American agriculture. Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, and […]