Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
Haiti Laurent Dubois, a historian at Duke University who specializes in the French Caribbean, wrote Haiti: The Aftershocks of History in the aftermath of the […]
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Caribbean Project: The Duvalierist Revolution
Haiti For several years now, I have used this blog to indulge in one of my favorite hobbies: in the dead of winter, usually during […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti: The Usual Explanations
Haiti Editor’s Note: I’m compiling a list of the usual explanations for Haiti’s failure along with an explanation why each doesn’t make sense. The blows […]
Caribbean Project: Spenser St. John on Haitians
Haiti Here’s an excerpt from Spenser St. John’s “Hayti, or the Black Republic”: “The vexed question as to the position held by the negroes in […]
Haiti Debate
Caribbean Sea Over at Crossroads, I am explaining in the comment section why Haiti evolved into Haiti, and why Haiti is so much worse off today […]
Florida’s Development In The 1920s
Florida Here’s an excerpt from Michael Gannon’s The History of Florida on the settlement of South and Central Florida during the land boom the 1920s: […]
Florida’s Peninsula In The ‘New South’
Florida During the Antebellum era and War Between the States, North Florida was fully integrated into the Deep South. Florida’s population was concentrated in “Middle […]
The Southernization of ‘La Florida’
Florida Why do we consider Florida a Southern state? What exactly is ‘Southern’ about Florida? If White Southerners are being demographically displaced in Florida, when did […]
Florida’s Demographic Transformation, 1960-2010
Florida In 1960, there were only 4,951,560 people in Florida. 4,063,861 people in Florida, or 82 percent of the state’s population, were White. The remaining […]
Rep. Tyrone Brooks Indicted on Mail, Wire, and Tax Fraud Charges
Georgia Here’s a new wrinkle in the removal of the Tom Watson statue: Note: Brooks was indicted in May, but we were unaware of this […]
Tom Watson’s Racist Views, 100 Years Later
Georgia Warren Throckmorton, a longtime antagonist of the League of the South, is upset this morning by Tom Watson’s “racist views”: “In life — especially later […]
Abolition and Racial Equality
New England Here’s an excerpt below from Paul Goodman’s Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. I’m really enjoying this book. There […]
Who Is Professor Steven Lance Stoll?
Florida Merry Christmas! – Google Search Results SNN has a new article on Professor Steven Lance Stoll, a Jewish homosexual from Akron, OH, who is […]
Of One Blood: Abolition and the Origins of Racial Equality
New England My copy arrived this afternoon:
Erasing our “Racist” Past
Virginia Jared Taylor on the removal of the Tom Watson statue in Georgia:
Polling Data on Northern Racial Attitudes
American North Here’s another excerpt from Sweet Land of Liberty on the shift in White Northern racial attitudes after World War II: “The struggle over equality […]
The Economist on Tom Watson Statue Removal
Georgia The Economist has has a new article on the League of the South and the removal of the Tom Watson statue. Note: In hindsight, […]
Jews and Northern Integration
American North As I said in the OD comments, there’s no shortage of discussion of the Jewish Question in Thomas Sugrue’s Sweet Land of Liberty: […]
Northern Racial Attitudes and Integration
American North Here’s an excerpt from Thomas Sugrue’s Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North about the shift in […]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Alabama Happy Thanksgiving! I know that I have a lot to be thankful for this year. My wife is making our first Thanksgiving dish. What […]
Selma City Council Agrees To Settlement
Alabama Here’s some good news for a change: the Selma City Council has approved a settlement in a lawsuit over the theft of the bust […]
Stand With Tom Watson Rally
Georgia As expected, the CofCC and League of the South’s “Stand With Tom Watson Rally” was held at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta without any […]
Creative Loafing on Tom Watson Rally
Georgia Creative Loafing in Atlanta has written an article about the Tom Watson rally: “State officials’ plans to remove a statue outside the Georgia Capitol […]
Tom Watson Protest Signs
Georgia State Rep. Tyrone Brooks had this to say today to the Atlanta Daily World about the removal of the Tom Watson statue at the Georgia […]
Northern State Civil Rights Laws
American North Here’s an interesting excerpt from Sweet Land of Liberty about the North’s civil rights laws at the state level: “What made northern racial […]
Update: Tom Watson Protest Signs
Georgia The League of the South signs for our “Stand With Tom Watson” rally in Atlanta arrived yesterday afternoon: Here’s the CofCC sign that we […]
Northern Fair Employment Practice Laws
American North Until I read this, I had been disappointed that Thomas J. Sugrue’s Sweet Land of Liberty was ignoring the passage of civil rights […]
Sweet Land of Liberty
American North I bought this book on sale last month when I was in St. Louis. It is about the forgotten history of the Civil Rights […]
Georgia SCV Wants To Keep Tom Watson Statue
Georgia I sent them a message over Facebook. I guess we will see if they are serious about preserving our Southern heritage: “Leaders of Georgia’s […]
November 23: Stand With Tom Watson Rally (Atlanta, GA)
Georgia Ever since I heard about this, the removal of the Tom Watson statue in Georgia has been stuck in my craw. I’ve decided to […]
Tom Watson Statue To Be Removed From Georgia State Capitol
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia recently signed an executive order authorizing the removal of the Tom Watson statue from the grounds of the Georgia […]
Blacks, Rainbow Confederates, and the “Heritage”
Dixie Connie Chastain writes: “Interesting thing… there are lots of claims that the flag offends people, especially African Americans, but I have never seen those […]