Regionalization of Democratic Party Benefits GOP in Midterms
The Democratic Party has, for the moment, become a regional party. Only 449 counties across the nation are reliably Democratic. Five times that many — 2,226 — are reliably Republican. The Democratic counties are generally found along the coasts and in large urban...
Confederate Statue Time Capsule Opened
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said he expected to find a “box full of dust” on Tuesday when city workers opened a rusty time capsule found inside a Confederate memorial statue that stood at Lake Eola Park for a century. Instead, city officials found a trove of relics,...
Is A College Education Worth It?
August is the month when parents bid farewell to not only their college-bound youngsters but also a sizable chunk of cash for tuition. More than 18 million students attend our more than 4,300 degree-granting institutions. A question parents, their college-bound...
News From Around the South 7/31 to 8/7
VIRGINIA: Battlefield Offers Civil War Experience PETERSBURG, Va. — The 1st South Carolina Infantry and the 3rd U.S. Infantry will be drilling, presenting firing demonstrations, and presenting programs on Civil War soldier life in battle and beyond on Saturday,...
Myth of A Unified South
One-hundred and fifty years after the end of the Civil War, the thirst for an alternate version of Southern history in the US remains unquenchable. The Confederate flag endures as a symptom of the deeper cancer of racism, eating into the bone of the nation. And now a...Obiter Dicta
In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: New S.C. license plate honors Revolutionary War history COLUMBIA – Beginning Jan. 1, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles will issue a newly designed standard license plate that Read More