Southern Discomfort

Southern Discomfort

by | Mar 5, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

For a century after losing the Civil War, the South was America’s own colonial backwater—“not quite a nation within a nation, but the next thing to it,” W. J. Cash wrote in his classic 1941 study, “The Mind of the South.” From Tyler, Texas, to Roanoke, Virginia,...
North-South Split in House

North-South Split in House

by | Jan 18, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

To understand the depth of the Republican dilemma that continues to brew in Washington, you only needed to listen to two voices last week. One belonged to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. The primal scream he aimed at his fellow Republicans in the 112th Congress, who...