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South’s Confederate Monument Problem

by RIS Secure | May 18, 2016 | Archive, Southern Partisan

It was 1913, and the Civil War had been over for 48 years. The United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization that worked to populate the South with Confederate war memorials, decided such a monument should be erected in Rockville, Maryland, a suburb of...

America Today Resembles 1910 More Than Postwar Era

by RIS Secure | May 17, 2016 | Archive, Southern Partisan

What’s your benchmark? What is the historical era with which you compare life in contemporary America? For many astute commentators on various points of the political spectrum, it is postwar America, the two decades after the United States and its allies won...

News From Around the South 5/9 to 5/16

by RIS Secure | May 16, 2016 | Archive, Southern Partisan

SOUTH CAROLINA: Charleston Honors Civil War Memorial Day Tradition CHARLESTON, SC — The recently state-sanctioned Confederate Memorial Day holiday is past, but Saturday marks a celebration held annually in Charleston since the late 1800s. Civil War re-enactors...

Southern Culture for Internationals

by RIS Secure | May 12, 2016 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Almost all of them know who Michael Jordan is. But when it comes to ordering eggs in a restaurant – fried, poached, hard boiled, scrambled, over easy – they’re pretty much stumped by the terminology. America is a complex and baffling place for UNC’s international...

News From Around the South 5/2 to 5/9

by RIS Secure | May 11, 2016 | Archive, Southern Partisan

FLORIDA: KKK Protests Black Confederate Flag Supporter JACKSONVILLE — A Southern Civil Rights activist – supporting the rights of the South – was protested by the KKK recently in downtown Jacksonville. H.K. Edgerton, a black man, was paying his...

Who Promoted Private Ryan?

by RIS Secure | May 10, 2016 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Forty-eight hours after Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination with a smashing victory in the Indiana primary, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he could not yet support Trump. In millennial teen-talk, Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper,...