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Confederate PTSD: Curing the South
When I was in graduate school at Iowa State in the late 1980s I hit a period, during my second year, where a little homesickness set in. So I did something to […]
It’s time we stopped worshipping the Constitution and our “founding fathers”
For our founding fathers, “people” was a euphemism” that meant “rich white men.” Sadly, the same is true for many of our current leaders. It’s been a momentous couple of weeks. Obamacare won […]
Book Review: Alligator Stew by C.D. Mitchell
C.D. Mitchell understands the “Dirty South” better than many who trumpet their knowledge of it… In my recent essay on Richard Ford as an influence on my own writing I wrote about dirty […]
Mama and them do Christmas…
One last review for 2013: a classic example of a sub-genre of Southern literature known as ”Mama and them” stories. Many of these belong in the memoir category, while others follow the autobiographical or family history novel path. The […]
ArtSunday: A mind of the South – Thomas Nelson Page’s In Ole Virginia
I was in a local antique shop a few weeks ago and came across, lying on a school desk from the 1940′s, a small volume with slight water damage. I picked it up (as I […]
Saturday Video Roundup: Shit Southern women say
My little sister sent me this the other day and I’ve been having flashbacks ever since. There’s only one false note: no Southern woman in history ever said “is my hair too […]
Secession: it’s fun to talk about, but is it actually plausible?
Ever since FOX called Ohio for Obama last Tuesday night (touching off a near-hysterical conniption from Karl Rove), talk of secession has been rampant. Groups in all 50 states have started petitions […]
Deciphering those S&R Obama/racism poll results
Last week, a highly unscientific Scholars & Rogues poll asked our readers this question: What percent of the popular vote do you believe Barack Obama would win in the upcoming election if he […]
Secession—it’s all the rage
If Barack Obama wins a second term in the White House, Frank Rich has suggested, the Right is going to go absolutely nuts. I suspect Rich is correct—we haven’t seen anything like […]
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