
Tag: the south

In the South, the answer may well be no. Almost a year ago, the roaring chants echoed in the streets: Defund the police! Abolish the police! The tide of public opinion spurred some of the nation’s m
When I moved to Knoxville, Tennessee in 1997, it didn’t take long for me to be exposed to one of the best things about the South: Waffle House. It’s not that Waffle House food is particula

In 2014, the United Auto Workers attempted to organize the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Despite tacit neutrality from the company, Tennessee politicians and right-wing funders used open
Above: A Democrat the Media Can Love The endless array of articles claiming Democrats are doomed if they can’t win REAL AMERICANS has reached its apotheosis: bemoaning the fact that southern Dem

The historian Keri Leigh Merritt has an essay in The Bitter Southerner, always a good site to read, that discusses the ways that elite whites used power over poor whites to ensure that they did not un
This is a good run-down of why Bernie was slaughtered in the Southern primaries and what this means for the future. Basically, if a leftist presidential candidate wants to be successful in the South,

The International Association of Machinists had hopes to organize Boeing’s plant in South Carolina, which exists precisely because Boeing executives wanted to bust the unions in their Seattle pl
David Shields is a food historian of the South, particularly the Carolina lowcountry, who has spent more than a decade working specifically on the recovery of Carolina Gold rice, a nearly lost breed c
- Whaddaya gonna do?
- Hoist by their own pseudo-scandal
- Democracy dies in triflin’ editorial and layout decisions
- True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman
- The 12 stations of the grift
- Could Taco Bell Fail in Mexico?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,172
- Questions and Answers
- The surveillance techniques that will be used to prosecute women and girls for medically-induced abortions
- Also too, if the FBI says they found anything they’re making it up, and if they then produce it they planted it