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”
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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: Wigfall vs. De Bow: Two Views of Southern Economic Independence
James D.B. De Bow was a Southern economic nationalist
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
Southern History Month 2019: Rural Electrification Administration
Building rural infrastructure in the early 20th century South
Southern History Month 2019: The TVA
Many years ago, populists and progressives turned the lights on in the South
Southern History Month 2019: The South as a Garden
The founders of the South wanted to cultivate an agricultural paradise
Southern History Month 2019: George Fitzhugh on The False Philosophy Of Our Age
George Fitzhugh on free-market capitalism
Southern History Month 2019: James Henry Hammond On Wage Slavery
James Henry Hammond on humane capitalism
Southern History Month 2019: Robert Barnwell Rhett on the “Age Of Reason”
Robert Barnwell Rhett was the ‘Father of Secession’
Southerners Used To Be Progressives
Is White identitarianism incompatible with progressivism and populism?
Scots-Irish Project: The Roots of America’s Gun Culture
Dixie As House and Senate Democrats move forward with gun control legislation today in the 113th Congress, it is worth reflecting on why the Scots-Irish who […]
The Crusader: Sen. John Tyler Morgan and African Colonization
Alabama Sen. John Tyler Morgan of Alabama has always been one of my personal heroes. Morgan began his career as an aide to the fire […]
A New Order of Things
I once used the term “paleo-progressive” to describe my views. Here’s an excerpt about the political career of Braxton Bragg Comer: Conservatives opposed Comer, not […]