The South and the New Deal

by | Apr 17, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Invoking “dysfunction” is now the basic black of punditry about American politics. As the British political theorist David Runciman recently observed in the London Review of Books, “Commentators find it almost impossible to write about American democracy these days...
Drop Electoral College?

Drop Electoral College?

by | Nov 5, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

As we write this, we reside in the state of Texas. Regardless of whether we select President Obama or former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the voting booth, we can say with certainty that our vote will go to Gov. Romney. This is because we really are voting for...