Southern BBQ
A chilly day and I am thinking of starting the hickory fire and putting some pork on the smoker. BBQ – perhaps the most discussed, fought over, and eaten jewel in all of Southern cooking. As a chef of l’étoile in Charlottesville, I may know a thing or two about it....
Developers Eye Civil War Battlefields
In Atlanta, just minutes away from city offices and downtown attractions, 14 acres of brush and woods have caught the eye of apartment housing developers. That in itself is nothing new. But what makes those 14 acres special is this: The prime piece of in-town real...
What New Role for the South in Politics?
The New Year’s Day vote in Congress that brought a temporary truce to the fiscal wars showed the Republicans to be far more divided than the Democrats, and the division broke along regional lines. House Republicans from the Far West and from the Northeast favored the...
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Virginia: The Civil War’s Madam on the Mall Vienna, Va.— As the nearly million people stood on the national Mall and watched the inauguration of President Barack Obama, little did they know that they were extremely near a very popular and profitable business...
Resegregation?
As conservative southern Democrats—once known as Dixiecrats—switched to Republicans, Black state lawmakers have seen their power evaporate in the South. “Virtually all Black elected officials in the region are outsiders looking in,” wrote senior research associate...Obiter Dicta
We’ve seen masked government agents roughing people up, shouting obscenities at them, trapping them on freezing cold roofs, smashing their Read More
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