by editor | Jan 15, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Cotton—a plant many Americans associate with the Deep South—arrived in Georgia, the first colony to produce cotton commercially, in 1734. After the development of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin in 1794, the production has only increased. Ronnie Hardigree, 71, has been...
by editor | Jan 15, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The most abused adjective in political reporting is the label “centrist.” It should tell you everything about the politician. Unfortunately, it tells us far more about those applying the label. The American Conservative Union ratings system has been widely...
by editor | Jan 15, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Pinterest and The Knot Won’t Promote Plantation Weddings Anymore Pinterest and the Knot Worldwide, two of the country’s biggest online wedding-planning platforms, are changing their policies to stop promoting wedding venues and content that...
by editor | Jan 9, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Late last January, a short video showing Catholic high school boys and an indigenous drummer in Washington created a media and social media flurry. The video documented a confluence of two marches (the March for Life and the Indigenous Peoples March) near the Lincoln...
by editor | Jan 8, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
A number of UNC faculty departments have released statements in opposition to the Board of Governors’ $2.5 million Silent Sam statue settlement with the North Carolina Division Sons of Confederate Veterans. The Faculty Council, UNC School of Law, School of...
by editor | Jan 7, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Fifteen years after the U.S. invaded Iraq to turn Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship into a beacon of democracy, Iraq’s Parliament, amid shouts of “Death to America!” voted to expel all U.S. troops from the country. Though nonbinding, the expulsion...