News From Around the South 10/19 to 10/26
MISSISSIPPI: Ole Miss Students Reject State Flag The University of Mississippi, founded in 1848 in Oxford, is a school steeped in Southern traditions – some of them racist. When the South went to war, much of Ole Miss’s student body joined the...
America’s Unfinished Second Founding
In the closing months of 1865, the U.S. was at a crossroads. The Civil War was over. President Lincoln was dead. And the nation was beginning to confront a series of vexing questions in the aftermath of the Civil War. How does the U.S. answer the Declaration of...
Really, Could It Be Trump?
For months I’ve been telling everyone who brings it up to calm down about the summer infatuation with the cartoonish Donald Trump, whose candidacy was perfect fodder for conversation over the barbecue. Then there was the early autumn period, where it still could...
News From around the South 10/12 to 10/19
VIRGINIA: Drivers Reject Confederate Flag Plate Recall SUFFOLK, Va. – It is now illegal to drive with Virginia license plates featuring the Confederate flag, but some plan to defy the change in the Commonwealth. Kevin Collier of Suffolk is a commander of the Stonewall...Obiter Dicta
One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress’s constitutional authority over war. Read More
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MISSISSIPPI: Senatobia officer involved in fatal shooting of Black toddler was accused of making a racially offensive remark two days prior Sgt. Hunter Foster directed the remark at a Black Read More