What is the Mind of the South?
Since the dawn of introspection, which predates Homer at least, what collective mind has been more exhaustively or passionately psychoanalyzed than the Mind of the South? In the decades since W.J. Cash probed and disparaged it in his historic 1929 essay for The...Welfare Nation
My parents were children during the Great Depression, and it scarred them, especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood: adults standing in so-called “bread lines,” children begging in the streets. My grandfather was a New...News from Around the South 10/28 to 11/4
Tennessee: Second Confederate Flag Stolen JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — One of five flagpoles at Oak Hill Cemetery in Johnson City is empty this week for the second time this month after someone stole the Confederate flag it bore. “It’s the second time in the last two...15 Southern Sayings
Language discrepancies naturally arise in different geographic regions, like the raging “pop” vs. “soda” debate. But the South undoubtedly takes the cake. Conversations south of the Mason-Dixon line will befuddle anyone not born there. We chose 15 of the most...Obiter Dicta
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is not qualified to be the attorney general of the United States because he has Read More
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