Spirit of the South
Alabama “No National Party can save us; no Sectional Party can do it. But if we could do as our fathers did, organize Committees of […]
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Song of the South
Alabama Just heard this on the radio … I especially enjoyed “Someone told us Wall Street fell, but we were so poor that we couldn’t […]
Eric Foner on Lincoln and Slavery
New York The Jewish historian Eric Foner explains how his family background in radical Jewish socialist politics influenced his imaginative “reinterpretation” of Reconstruction era. Naturally, […]
The White Revolution of 1876
South Carolina This is like something out of a Harold Covington fantasy novel: the difference here being, it actually happened, the overthrow of BRA, and […]
Pitchfork Ben Tillman
South Carolina This is some great stuff: Pitchfork Ben Tillman of South Carolina reminiscing on BRA, how it was created by the Yankees who infected […]
Flashback: White League Army
Louisiana “It causes two different and conflicting emotions to rise up within me – the one, to abandon a life of politics where such things […]
Not Our Country: The Origins of BRA
Dixie Here’s a flashback to the very beginning of BRA in the Reconstruction era when the loyal negro was tragically elevated to the status of […]
We The 54th Regiment
Massachusetts Via Civil War Memory. The 54th Regiment fought with Massachusetts for the Yankee flag and for the “Glory” of BRA. This is what we […]
Review: Redemption
Mississippi Nicholas Lemann’s Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War can be aptly summarized as another leftwing, anti-Southern tirade by a Jewish revisionist that […]
The Lost Cause: An Old War In the New South
Alabama This is some kind of new documentary that features Mark Potok sharing his thoughts on the Confederacy. Update: Having watched the clip, Potok repeats […]
Lucius Lamar on Black Run Mississippi
Mississippi “Thank God, we have a country at last: to live for, to pray for, and if need be, to die for.” – Lucius Quintus […]
Review: American Nations
Dixie Colin Woodward’s American Nations is one of those riveting, game changing books like The Bell Curve that comes along once in a decade. I […]
The Real Midwest
American Midwest In the minds of White Southerners, especially those in the Deep South, the “Yankees” are the people who live in the Northern States, […]
Whiskey Rebellion – Tea Party Revolution 1.0
Pennsylvania This is endlessly fascinating … it is a story about the Scots-Irish frontiersmen in North America, who came here to be left alone, to […]
American Revolutions
Dixie I continue to be impressed by this delightful book … here Woodward unwittingly destroys the preposterous Lincoln myth that there was an “American Revolution” […]
Scots-Irish vs. Quakers
Pennsylvania This has been a delightful book. I’m really enjoying reading it so far. This is a story about the time the Quaker Nation – […]
American Nations: First Impressions
Dixie I’ve found a delightful surprise in the bookstore: “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America.” This new book (it was […]
John Wallace Comer
Alabama I’ve finally got my copy of Sold Down The River: Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia …. and lo and […]
Protestantism and Racial Decline
Alabama Thrasymachus has written an interesting post about my comments on the Reformation. I have been meaning to expand in considerable detail my thoughts on […]
America’s Worst Decade
United States Ronald Brownstein has penned a column for the National Journal which describes the 9/11 decade as one of the worst decades in American […]
Flashback: JFK Integrates University of Alabama
Alabama It is time for a flashback: how did integration come to the University of Alabama? In the year 2011, the University of Alabama is […]
Federal Judge Blocks Alabama Immigration Law
Alabama U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Blackburn has issued a stay that has blocked Alabama’s new immigration law from taking effect. This is a temporary […]
Arizona Challenges The Voting Rights Act!
Arizona Which American state will strike the first blow for freedom from BRA’s Union? It was South Carolina last time around. The spirit of Charleston […]
Battle of Oxford, 1962
Mississippi In my college years, one of my favorite books was An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962, which tells the true story […]
End The USA
Virginia Ron Paul is right that we need to “End the Fed.” Unfortunately, he doesn’t go nearly far enough for my tastes. We need to […]
The Union Victory: 150 Years Later
Alabama The year 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the War Between the States. The American Interest has penned three essays to […]
Horrendous Leadership
District of Corruption At The American Interest, Walter Russell Mead complains of the “horrendous leadership” of the American South in the 1850s. The real excellent […]
Sack of Washington
The Future I’m going to raise this as a historical possibility: as those of us in Alabama who are descended from Old Virginia well know, […]
Dixie’s Olympics
Alabama (Editor’s Note: The Muse of Hate has been given the day off after delivering the great Ode to Victory after ten years of toil […]
Civil War 2
District of Corruption As everyone knows by now, Rick Perry is running for president in 2012. He is the latest Republican opportunist who is trying […]