News from Around the South, 11/9-11/16
Alabama: Kickoff for “Civil War Christmas” By Kelly Kazek, al.com ATHENS, Alabama – A little more than 150 years ago, Athens was embroiled in a pivotal battle whose outcome would decide if the Civil War would continue to be fought as a gentleman’s war, or...
Southern Scholar Passes
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, a leading historian whose influential book “Southern Honor” illuminated the ethics and fear of shame that defined the moral code of the old South, died Nov. 5 at his home in Baltimore. He was 80 and had pulmonary fibrosis. His wife,...
Monolithic Black Vote?
In 13 wards in Philadelphia, reports the Inquirer, President Barack Obama received 99 percent of the vote! A local Democratic ward leader outlined the strategy: “In this election, you had to point out to people what was at stake. And in many cases, they felt...
Obiter Dicta
Republican leaders said after Tuesday’s election they were “dumbfounded” and “mystified” that their guy, Mitt Romney, didn’t win the presidency. They shouldn’t have been so surprised. Powerful voices on the right were saying...
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Obiter Dicta
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