by editor | Oct 3, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Here’s a big news alert: House Republicans oppose Obamacare. That’s why they’ve shut the government down. No, doing so won’t actually stop Obamacare. To a great extent, the program is on autopilot. The Republicans shut down the government, but...
by editor | Sep 5, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Barack Obama ran for president as the last of the red-hot pacifists, so it might have sounded preposterous to predict that after a few security briefings at the White House, President Obama would follow in the same policy footsteps of horrid warmonger George Bush,...
by editor | Feb 21, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
“This is the last time anyone will try to do this,” said a Republican strategist during the 2012 campaign. He meant that was the last time that a Republican presidential candidate would focus largely on white voters in order to win the White House. This...
by editor | Feb 4, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
As conservative southern Democrats—once known as Dixiecrats—switched to Republicans, Black state lawmakers have seen their power evaporate in the South. “Virtually all Black elected officials in the region are outsiders looking in,” wrote senior research associate...
by editor | Feb 1, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Southern Democrats in Washington for the inauguration of President Obama celebrated as much as their counterpoints from across the country. But they also knew they had work to do, with GOP senators, governors and state legislatures cutting a bright red swath through...