Poll: Racial Experiences Differ in South

Poll: Racial Experiences Differ in South

ROCK HILL, S.C.– Half of residents in 11 Southern states either agree or strongly agree that America was founded as an explicitly Christian nation, according to the results in the Winthrop Poll Southern Focus Survey. This viewpoint, a crux of “Christian Nationalism,”...
Demonizing White Men

Demonizing White Men

Rush Limbaugh’s December 2018 Limbaugh Letter has an article titled “Demonizing White Men.” It highlights — with actual quotations from people in the media, academia and the political and entertainment arenas — the attack on white men as a class. You...
News From Around the South 1/21 to 1/28

News From Around the South 1/21 to 1/28

SOUTH CAROLINA: Leader Says S.C. Secessionist Party Disbanding ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — The chairman of the South Carolina Secessionist Party says the group is dissolving. The Anderson Independent Mail reported Friday that chairman James Bessenger says “the organization...
Anti-Social Media

Anti-Social Media

This past weekend, Twitter was on fire about an event near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. After a short video clip went viral showing an indigenous drummer and white teenagers wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, (anti-)social media ran with the...
‘Sweet Home Alabama’ & History

‘Sweet Home Alabama’ & History

The year is 1973, and in Studio One, Dooraville, in Atlanta, Georgia, Ronnie Van Zant, the lead singer and guiding light of Lynyrd Skynyrd mutters ‘Turn it up’ into a microphone. An electric moment in a song that will become legendary, and which will propel the...