by editor | Sep 10, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The presidential campaign is at knife’s edge. Both parties’ campaigns assume that patterns of support will closely resemble those in 2016. And both are making surprisingly little effort, considering how close that contest turned out to be, with the 46...
by editor | Sep 9, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
CLEMSON, S.C. – Temporary pink and white flags now dot the western hill of Clemson University’s Woodland Cemetery, marking where researchers have recently discovered that the bodies of hundreds of Black slaves and indentured convicts are among the polished...
by editor | Sep 8, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
In what The New York Times described as a “forceful rebuttal,” Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden delivered a speech Monday in which he said, “Ask yourself: Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters? Really?” The...
by editor | Sep 8, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
SOUTH CAROLINA: Deal To Move Confederate Monument In Works GREENVILLE, S.C. — The leader of an activist group engaged in a summer-long protest against a Confederate statue in downtown Greenville claims a compromise has been reached with the city to move the...
by editor | Sep 3, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
All states have laws that prohibit assault and destruction of others’ property. States and the federal government also have laws that prohibit bystanders from encouraging others to engage in violence. The latter is known as incitement. When violence has erupted...
by editor | Sep 2, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
As in the rest of the country, things are starting to heat up in America’s oldest city when it comes to Confederate monuments. Similar to Lt. General Ambrose P. Hill’s monument and gravesite, Major General William W. Loring’s burial site in St. Augustine, Florida, is...