Redneck Airwaves

by | Dec 8, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

We have long heard that the South will rise again, but who thought that return would be led by a 7-year-old girl and a band of brothers with ZZ Top beards and a fondness for frog hunting? Yet here we are amid an explosion of reality shows about the South, more...
Entitlement Compromise?

Entitlement Compromise?

by | Dec 6, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

One by one, congressional Republicans are revoking their no-tax-increase pledges, opening the door to a fiscal-cliff compromise. Sadly, Democrats are just as quickly closing the door by calling for tax increases now and entitlement cuts later, if at all. Democrats...
The Civil War at Sea

The Civil War at Sea

by | Dec 5, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

The names of the epic Civil War land battles—Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga—have a certain ring to them. Even the term “Sherman’s March to the Sea” is evocative. In contrast, there is little that reverberates in...

Civil War Professor Reviews 'Lincoln'

by | Dec 4, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

I am walking out of the multiplex theater in my old hometown of Springfield, and already the sold-out audience for the next showing of Steven Spielberg’s new “Lincoln” is queuing up. The sound of something very rare in my movie-going experience is still...
News from Around the South 11/26-12/3

News from Around the South 11/26-12/3

by | Dec 1, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Georgia: Signs that a GOP Civil War may be headed Georgia’s way In politics, two years is the equivalent of two eternities. But already, signs are pointing to a Republican civil war headed Georgia’s way, settling into an orbit around the 2014 re-election bid of...