Slave states vs. free states, 2012
A century-and-a-half later, we’ve come full circle: the red-blue state divide falls along Confederate-Union lines. Every now and then someone highlights the overlap between today’s Republican states and the slave states of the former Confederacy. As clichéd as...
On School Segregation
Despite declining residential segregation for black families in the United States, school segregation for black students remains very high — and it is increasing most dramatically in the South, which has led the nation in desegregation thanks to the victories of...
News from Around the South 10/3-10/10
Arkansas: Mauch Under Fire for Slavery Defense A Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives has a history of writing in support of slavery and the Confederacy, along with comparing Abraham Lincoln to Karl Marx. State Rep. Loy Mauch (R-Bismarck) wrote a...
Kings Mountain Patriots
The third definition of “patriot” in the Oxford English Dictionary is “A person actively opposing enemy forces occupying his or her country; a member of a resistance movement, a freedom fighter. Originally used of those who opposed and fought the...Obiter Dicta
“If you’re trying to decide what to do, and you only have two choices, do the thing that’s hardest,” my Read More
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