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RICHMOND, Va. — As gun rights activists, white nationalists [...]
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Ignorant Rape Comments No Surprise
on August 22nd, 2012 at 9:20 pmIt’s not easy to find the precise adjective to best describe Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin’s comments about “legitimate rape” and the female body having “ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” “Ignorant” isn’t bad for starters. “Clumsy” is a bit weak. Disastrous, heinous, horrible, awful, infuriating, frustrating, devastating … the list goes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
News from Around the South for Week of 8/20-8/26
on August 23rd, 2012 at 10:59 pmAlabama: Monument to Civil War General Sparks Controversy By Miranda Leitsinger, NBC News The renovation of a monument honoring a Civil War Confederate general, who was the first “Grand Wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan, is once more creating controversy in Selma, Ala., 11 years after protesters got it moved off of public property. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Leading Faulker Scholar passes
on August 24th, 2012 at 10:52 pmWe came across these two items in the Picayune (Miss.) Item and thought they’d be of interest to Southern Partisan readers about the passing of the country’s preeminent William Faulkner scholar: Services Set for Polk Memorial HATTIESBURG — A memorial service for Noel Polk will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Thad Cochran Building […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last Hurrah of Nixon's 'New Majority'?
on August 28th, 2012 at 9:09 pmLooking back all the way to America’s Civil War, there have been three dominant presidential coalitions. The first was Abraham Lincoln’s. With his war to restore the Union and his martyrdom, Lincoln inaugurated an era of Republican dominance that lasted more than seven decades and saw only two Democratic presidents: Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
News From Around the South for Week of 8/27
on August 29th, 2012 at 5:48 pmMississippi: For Miss., an angst-filled Civil War Anniversary By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS – Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War can be an angst-filled task in Mississippi, with its long history of racial strife and a state flag that still bears the Confederate battle emblem. Well-intentioned Mississippians who work for racial […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the many problems with political correctness is that it often ignores context. Well, that’s being kind. Political correctness doesn’t just ignore context, it assumes you aren’t smart enough to understand it. At its insidious core, it can be nothing more than elitist censorship, wherein people who presume to know better than you remove […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Did Northern Aggression Cause Civil War?
on September 5th, 2012 at 4:17 pmBy James Oakes, Jacobin/salon.com On 6 November 1860, the six-year-old Republican Party elected its first president. During the tense crisis months that followed – the “secession winter” of 1860–61 – practically all observers believed that Lincoln and the Republicans would begin attacking slavery as soon as they took power. Democrats in the North blamed the Republican Party for the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
News from Around the South for Week of 9/3
on September 5th, 2012 at 4:51 pmAlabama: Hurricane Isaac uncovers Confederate ‘mystery ship’ By Paul Conner, The Daily Caller In the latest installment of a spooky pattern of events, Hurricane Isaac uncovered a boat believed to be a Civil War blockade runner on the beaches of Gulf Shores, Ala. Photos of the ship were posted to Facebook by Meyer Vacation Rentals. Gulf […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Redefining Cotton As Protein
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 [...]
UNC Faculty Opposes Silent Sam Settlement
UNC faculty has expressed opposition to the University’s $2.5 million settlement which gave the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million and Silent Sam.
A number of UNC faculty departments have released statements in opposition [...]