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...
Why is the South so Deadly?
According to a Duke University sociologist, if the South were its own country, it would be the deadliest nation in the civilized world. As it stands, says Duke’s Kieran Healy (who has compared recent violence among nations as well as among regions within the USA) when...Obiter Dicta
“Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away?” Read More
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