South Rises Again in Brazil
SANTA BARBARA D’OESTE, BRAZIL (AP) – It had all the trappings of a down-home country fair somewhere well below the Mason-Dixon line: Lynyrd Skynyrd medleys, mile-long lines for fried chicken, barbeque and draft beer, and a plethora of Confederate flags...
Frozen ‘Huevos’
Sofia Vergara is the Spanish-accented sexpot on the ABC sitcom “Modern Family.” She’s also now the center of an unwanted controversy over a “modern family.” She’s fighting with an ex-fiance over two frozen embryos. Back in 2013,...
News From Around the South 5/11 to 5/18
ALABAMA: Attorney Receives Threats After Removing Confederate Flags UNION SPRINGS, Ala. — A prominent attorney admits to taking flags from the graves of soldiers, a move that’s sparked both positive reaction and calls for him to be arrested and disbarred....
The Capture of Jefferson Davis
In early May 1865, Varina Howell Davis reached the state of Georgia after having fled Richmond a month earlier. She was traveling with her four young children, her sister Margaret, two servants and a soldier who was related to the family. President Jefferson Davis had...
Most Segregated Cities in the South?
For most of U.S. history, people of different races have lived on separate streets, gone to separate schools and occupied separate parts of town. In the South, racial segregation was once the law of the land. While the region has made progresstoward integration in...Obiter Dicta
One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress’s constitutional authority over war. Read More
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