The Civil War Did Wonders For Economic Mobility Down South
In modern America, the ability to move up the economic food chain is a long shot. One method for shaking up entrenched economic classes that has worked in the past: civil war.
Private Schools Still Enable Segregation
When America first legally integrated its public schools, it faced many years of “massive resistance” from racist white people. Today, private schools—particularly in the South—exist as a shadow system of segregated education.
24 Students at Virginia High School Suspended for Wearing the Confederate Flag
24 students at a southwestern Virginia high school were suspended Thursday for wearing clothing displaying the Confederate flag in protest of school policy. Christiansburg High School banned the symbol after instances of “racially motivated behavior” (or “mysteriously and not at all purposefully unelaborated…
FBI Reportedly Investigating String of Arsons at Black Churches
According to Buzzfeed, the FBI confirmed on Sunday that federal officials are investigating a series of fires that recently hit four predominantly black Southern churches, although the agency denied there was any evidence connecting the blazes at this time.
Racist Idiots Hold Pro-Confederate Flag Rallies Across the South
While rest of the country took the day to celebrate yesterday’s historical win for inclusiveness and equality, a bunch of racist idiots in the South decided to fight for their allegiance to a fallen, unrecognized confederation whose founding principle was the ability to own other humans as slaves.
Alarming Statue of a Racist and Horse Perfectly Honors The Confederacy
An allegory of the American South: In 1998, a fierce racist (who also happened to be the former attorney of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassin) named Jack Kershaw created a monument for another bad man, Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. The resulting statue is so hilariously stupid that we should keep it…
Today Is a Work Holiday in Alabama to Honor Jefferson Davis
If you needed to run yonder to Bessemer for that easement to cross Scuzz McWhorter’s field so’s you can dig up all the lead shot what gramma’s blasted out there from the kitchen porch over all these years, let it wait till Tuesday, son: Alabama done went down to the beach in honor of the Confederacy!
Duke University Is a Despicable, Cowardly, Hateful Place
Earlier this week, Duke University announced that it would allow a weekly three-minute long Muslim call to prayer to be broadcast from its campus chapel tower. Now they have reversed that decision, proving that Duke University's primary values are intolerance and fear.
Holy Shit Look at This Giant Alligator Pulled Out of an Alabama Swamp
It took an Alabama family five hours to wrestle a 15-foot-long alligator from a swamp in Camden, Ala. over the weekend—the largest legal alligator killing by an Alabama hunter ever. After breaking a winch used to weigh gator catches, Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Biologists used a backhoe to lift the gator's body,…
Miss. Tea Partier Says His GOP Primary Loss Was Worse Than Jim Crow
Chris McDaniel, who narrowly lost Mississippi's GOP Senate primary to incumbent Thad Cochran last week, told a crowd Saturday that his loss was "clearly the most unethical election in the history of this state" and also "the most illegal," apparently forgetting that Mississippi also existed from 1866 to 1965.
This Is Not My Story to Tell
Looking back at photos is a dangerous game. Nostalgia can be a caustic drug, particularly when loss is involved. Here in the New York winter, those August days in the South feel impossible, unreal, until a picture brings it all back, all of it, the good and the bad, and there were plenty of both.
It's Jefferson Davis Day in Alabama, but the Wall Street Journal reports not everyone wants a holiday for a slave-owning traitor: "There are so many more worthy people to honor—like Waldo Semon, the inventor of vinyl," one Alabamian says. Maybe y'all can just skip the day off and work harder?
South Carolina's Jim Crow-Era Law Leads to an Insane Military Election
There are fifty states in our blessed union. There is only one state that holds an open election for the general who will command its National Guard forces. The reason is to keep black people from being too powerful. The result is that a convicted stalker may end up with all the tanks and guns.
New Georgia Law Will Allow Guns in Schools, Churches, and Courtrooms
Wednesday afternoon, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed a new gun law that, among other things, will allow Georgians to legally carry firearms into churches, schools, airport common areas, bars, courtrooms, and government buildings.
Brave Hunters Demand Right to Watch Dogs Kill Imprisoned Foxes
In Virginia, the land of Jefferson, respectable and upright citizens are fighting to preserve their right to hoard wild animals into a fenced enclosure and then enjoy the sight of dogs tearing them apart.
A new study of elections over the past 25 years shows that "the South was the least hospitable place for female congressional candidates." And the most hospitable place for calling losing female congressional candidates "ma'am."
Inside the American Id: Chilling With the South’s New Secessionists
The opening shot, the Fort Sumter of the newest campaign to take back Dixie, was a billboard. Months ago it appeared on the parkway in Tallahassee, just east of the Capitol, positioned so you could see it and the edifice of Florida government side-by-side, the sun popping off both of them together at daybreak. Most of…
Redneck States Are Borrowing a Confederate Plan to Protect Their Guns
Have you heard of "gun nullification"? It's all the rage. Seriously, so hot. It's especially popular in these Southern states who've used nullification before to tell the federales to butt the hell out of their business. Back then, nullification protected slavery and Jim Crow. Now, it protects your Smith & Wesson.
The U.S. Public School System Is Becoming The Land of The Poor
In vast swaths of America, the conversion of the "public" school system into a separate and unequal educational system catering to the poor and powerless is almost complete.
