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 […]
History
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 […]
Irish Confederates
Dixie Here’s a heads up on a new book that might interest OD readers, David T. Gleeson’s The Green and the Gray: The Irish in […]
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 […]
Knights of the Golden Circle, Order of the Lone Star, and Northern Mexico
Mexico Here’s an excerpt from David C. Keehn’s new book Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War that sheds light on the […]
The Demonization of the South
Alabama Demonization as a political and social stratagem knows no temporal or geographical bounds; it is a ploy as old as civilization itself. The objective […]
Interview: Did Abolitionist Hatred of the South Cause the Civil War?
PJMedia Here’s an interview with Thomas Fleming on his new book, Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil […]
Dixie vs. America: Civil Rights Act of 1957
Dixie Here’s a regional breakdown of the vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1957: Civil Rights Act of 1957 – Senate United States: 71-18-4 […]
Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War
Dixie Just ordered a new book: David C. Keehn’s Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War. “Based on years of exhaustive […]
Amurrica Series: Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Gettysburg Address
Pennsylvania For those who haven’t heard the news, today is the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. Note: In a more thoughtful article, historian […]
Why We Must Reject a ‘Proposition Nation’
Alabama Here is Dr. Michael Hill’s speech at the 2013 League of the South conference:
Review: Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights
Dixie Clive Webb’s Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights complicates the traditional White Nationalist narrative of the Civil Rights Movement and the Jewish Question. […]
Southern Rabbis and Civil Rights
Arkansas Of the approximately 200 Southern rabbis, a total of 9 were active participants in the Civil Rights Movement. Of the 9 rabbis who were […]
Miniature Ethnostates
Alabama I’m sure this will spark an interesting discussion: you don’t have to go to South Africa to find White homelands. He was typically frank […]
Lincoln Defended
National Review Rich Lowry has written an entire book that glorifies Abraham Lincoln and has published a front page cover story in National Review about […]
MLK and Southern Jews
Alabama Damn, this just keeps getting better and better: “Shortly before 6 A.M. on December 20, 1956, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. boarded a bus […]
Jewish Confederates
CSA In the antebellum era, Jews were more likely than Gentiles to own slaves and were disproportionately involved in the slave trade. Jews went along […]
The Strange Career of Solomon Blatt
South Carolina Here’s an excerpt from Clive Webb’s Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights about Solomon Blatt, the Jewish Speaker of the […]
Caribbean Project: Were Georgia’s Poor Whites Exploited By Planters?
Georgia Here’s an excerpt from Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860 on the “exploitation” of poor Whites by the planter class: “Cultivating […]
Caribbean Project: Georgia: The Failed White Utopia
Georgia Here’s an excerpt from Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860: “The trustees envisioned Georgia as a refuge for the common man. […]
Caribbean Project: Georgia & the Golden Circle
Georgia Palmetto Patriot’s copy of On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World has arrived and he has begun to […]
Today In 1963
Alabama Like I have said over and over again, the existence of the Union is the primary problem that we have to deal with: “MAY […]