A Grand Old Party?
News From Around the South for Week of 8/27
Mississippi: For Miss., an angst-filled Civil War Anniversary By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS – Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War can be an angst-filled task in Mississippi, with its long history of racial...
Last Hurrah of Nixon's 'New Majority'?
Looking back all the way to America’s Civil War, there have been three dominant presidential coalitions. The first was Abraham Lincoln’s. With his war to restore the Union and his martyrdom, Lincoln inaugurated an era of Republican dominance that lasted...
Leading Faulker Scholar passes
We came across these two items in the Picayune (Miss.) Item and thought they’d be of interest to Southern Partisan readers about the passing of the country’s preeminent William Faulkner scholar: Services Set for Polk Memorial HATTIESBURG — A memorial...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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SOUTH CAROLINA: One of Beaufort’s best-known trees topples. Will its other half survive? One of Beaufort’s most famous and historic trees split in two over the weekend, with half of Read More