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,...
Last Hurrah of Nixon's 'New Majority'?

Last Hurrah of Nixon's 'New Majority'?

by | Aug 28, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Looking 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...