Mason-Dixon Line Showing its Age

Mason-Dixon Line Showing its Age

by | Oct 24, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Cultural and – more recently – political changes have shifted the traditional border between North and South One way and another, surveyors have left their mark on American history. George Washington started his career as one. Then came Charles Mason and Jeremiah...
Slave states vs. free states, 2012

Slave states vs. free states, 2012

by | Oct 15, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

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...