by RIS Secure | May 14, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
In early May 1865, Varina Howell Davis reached the state of Georgia after having fled Richmond a month earlier. She was traveling with her four young children, her sister Margaret, two servants and a soldier who was related to the family. President Jefferson Davis had...
by RIS Secure | May 13, 2015 | Southern Partisan, Uncategorized
For most of U.S. history, people of different races have lived on separate streets, gone to separate schools and occupied separate parts of town. In the South, racial segregation was once the law of the land. While the region has made progresstoward integration in...
by RIS Secure | May 12, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
If the GOP doesn’t put together a sensible immigration policy, it will lose the 2016 presidential election. When Obama beat Romney in 2012, with the former Massachusetts governor attracting only 27 percent of the Hispanic vote with his self-deportation argument,...
by RIS Secure | May 11, 2015 | Southern Partisan, Uncategorized
SOUTH CAROLINA: State Offices Closed for Confederate Memorial Day COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – State offices across South Carolina are closing for Confederate Memorial Day. The holiday itself was Sunday, marking 152 years since Southern Gen. Stonewall Thomas...
by RIS Secure | May 8, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Hollywood and global-warming panic have always been a natural match. After all, who can tell you better to cut back on your wasteful ways better than a high-flying multimillionaire movie star with the carbon footprint of a Tyrannosaurus rex? It’s never mattered...