Southern History Month 2019: The Impoverishment of Appalachia
In the antebellum era, Appalachia had an economy on par with the rest of the South, but after the War Between the States it was ruthlessly exploited by Northern capitalists
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Southern History Month 2019: The Origins of the Azalea
It is springtime in Dixie which means it is time to wake up and smell the azaleas
Southern History Month 2019: Central Appalachia’s Extractive Economy
How Central Appalachia was ravaged, exploited and underdeveloped by free-market capitalism
Southern History Month 2019: Southern Manufacturing Job Losses Since WTO and NAFTA
The economic impact of free-trade on Southern manufacturing since the passage of NAFTA and the WTO
Travelogue: Journey To Excelsior Springs
How our trip to see the home of Jesse James was cut short
Southern History Month 2019: Firesale Prices: The Decimation of the Southern Public Domain
How the Southern forests were stripped bare and looted by Northern and European capitalists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Southern History Month 2019: Little Dixie
The Missouri River Valley was settled by Southerners like Jesse James who was the first to “Secure the Bag”
Southern History Month 2019: The Railroad Trust of The New South
In the early 20th century, a privately owned railroad network under free-market capitalism kept the Southern economy in thrall to Northern Robber Barons
Southern History Month 2019: The Great Revolt of the Rednecks
In the Mississippi of the 1890s, populists began to revolt against the conservative Bourbon Democrats, and eventually elected Gov. James K. Vardaman as their “Great White Chief.” He later became a US Senator from Mississippi
Southern History Month 2019: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
After the War Between the States, two dozen timber companies clear cut 60% of the Great Smoky Mountains, which is the most biologically diverse place in North America
Southern History Month 2019: Southern Parks
In the 20th century, Southerners built national and state parks to conserve our environment and to allow everyone to enjoy nature, which wasn’t possible under the previous system
Southern History Month 2019: Top 15 Species Lolbertarians Hate
A stroll through history and the ecological devastation caused by free-market capitalism
Southern History Month 2019: Georgia’s Providence Canyon
Southwest Georgia has its own miniature version of the Grand Canyon
Southern History Month 2019: The Dust Bowl, Soil Erosion, Okies
The Green New Deal was actually a response to massive soil erosion
Southern History Month 2019: Sharecropping
Sharecropping in the South was abolished in a generation by technology and investment
Southern History Month 2019: Mechanization
Technology and investment abolished sharecropping in the South
Southern History Month 2019: NASA
Do you remember the time we went to the moon?
Southern History Month 2019: Southern and Alabama Agriculture, 1860-1870
In aftermath of the Civil War, the Northern ideology of free-markets, free-labor, free men and free society triumphed in the American South, and this was the result
Southern History Month 2019: Huey “The Kingfish” Long
Every man a king
Southern History Month 2019: The Time John Rankin Gave M. Michael Edelstein a Heart Attack
John Rankin triggered E. Michael Edelstein to the point that he collapsed and died on the floor of Congress
Southern History Month 2019: The Southern Progressive Era
A look back to a very different South
Southern History Month 2019: Prohibition
Prohibition was a failed and instructive progressive experiment
Travelogue: Visiting Tidewater
Occidental Dissent visits Jamestowne and Colonial Williamsburg
Southern History Month 2019: George Fitzhugh on The False Philosophy Of Our Age
George Fitzhugh on free-market capitalism
Southern History Month 2019: Robert Barnwell Rhett on the “Age Of Reason”
Robert Barnwell Rhett was the ‘Father of Secession’
The Great Plantation: Anarchism Is The Greatest Of All Curses
John C. Calhoun wouldn’t have burned down the plantation
Southerners Used To Be Progressives
Is White identitarianism incompatible with progressivism and populism?
The Case For Southern Reaction
This is something of a sales pitch
Free Society vs. Slave Society
Why has free society failed in former plantation zones?
Dear SPLC
What do you think?
Pro-Confederate Groups March Through Oxford
Southern heritage protesters march through Ole Miss
Governor Blackface Wants To Take Down Virginia’s Confederate Monuments
Gov. Ralph Northam wants to “heal the pain”