Slave states vs. free states, 2012
A century-and-a-half later, we’ve come full circle: the red-blue state divide falls along Confederate-Union lines. Every now and then someone highlights the overlap between today’s Republican states and the slave states of the former Confederacy. As clichéd as...
On School Segregation
Despite declining residential segregation for black families in the United States, school segregation for black students remains very high — and it is increasing most dramatically in the South, which has led the nation in desegregation thanks to the victories of...
Where does The South begin?
Gordonsville, Va. — There’s debate about where the South really begins. The Mason-Dixon Line? The Potomac? The Rappahannock? The “sweet tea line?” What’s certain is that, by the time you’ve reached David Lamb’s horse farm in Orange County, you’re there. Oakland...
Did Northern Aggression Cause Civil War?
By 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...Obiter Dicta
On the eve of our nation’s 249th birthday, a Gallup poll finds that only 58% of Americans feel “extremely” or Read More
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