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Carl Jones

The AP Gets It Wrong…Again

By Carl Jones

In a recent column for the Associated Press, entitled “Old South monument backers embrace Confederate Catechism”, writer Jay Reeves opines that that those of us who seek to remember the Confederacy and Southern culture are… »

  • Carl Jones
  • Political Correctness
  • Secession
  • War for Southern Independence

Scalia, the Constitution, and the Court

By Carl Jones

With the recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, folks are writhing in fear over the prospect of Obama appointing a new SC Judge. “This”, they say, “could be the most monumental appointment in… »

  • Antonin Scalia
  • Carl Jones
  • Federalism
  • James Madison
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • United States Constitution

Reconstruction Continues…

By Carl Jones

I spent some time perusing my son’s sixth grade history book. I didn’t read it from back to front (yet), but just glanced through it. However, in that short span of time the fallacies, distortions… »

  • Carl Jones
  • Reconstruction
  • War for Southern Independence

Nothing is Sacred

By Carl Jones

Any sensible, reasonable person is deeply saddened by the atrocious and tragic murder of nine innocent, people while they attended a Bible study in Charleston, SC. Such tragedy is unthinkable, and I am joined by… »

  • Carl Jones
  • Confederate Flag
  • Political Correctness
  • Racism
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • War for Southern Independence
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April Top 10

By Brion McClanahan

The top ten for April 2015.  Thank you for a great one year anniversary for the new and improved Abbeville Institute website.  We exceeded our previous traffic for the entire year in April alone.  There is more… »

  • Brion McClanahan
  • Carl Jones
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Gail Jarvis
  • James Ronald Kennedy
  • Karen Stokes
  • Mike C. Tuggle
  • Top Ten
  • Ward S. Allen
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Yet Another Uneducated, Baseless Attack on the South

By Carl Jones

A so-called “writer” for al.com, Charles J. Dean, in an article entitled Today Alabama officially observes Confederate Memorial Day: Shame on us seems to be making a living these days off of feeble attempts at… »

  • Carl Jones
  • Secession
  • Slavery
  • War for Southern Independence

Modern Bards and Traditional Songs

By Carl Jones

Southern contributions to American music are so abundant that they can be considered as the bedrock of most all music as we know it today. From Appalachian hill music, Gospel and Blues (both Country and… »

  • Bobby Horton
  • Carl Jones
  • Kracker Dan
  • Lost Cause Band
  • Southern Music
  • Unreconstructed

What Every Southern Boy Should Know

By Carl Jones

Some months back, my buddy Tom Daniel wrote a piece titled “What Every Southern Man Should be Able to Do.” It is a great list of recommendations, and I concur with all of it, which… »

  • Carl Jones
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Manners
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The Cause of Jackson and Lee

By Carl Jones

  Delivered at the Blount County Courthouse, January 19, 2015. Robert E. Lee said “Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a… »

  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Carl Jones
  • James Madison
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Secession
  • Southern History
  • Stonewll Jackson
  • United States Constitution
  • War for Southern Independence

The Revival of (Southern) Conservatism

By Carl Jones

M.E. Bradford said of Southern Conservatism that: “This conservatism is both historic and principled in not insisting on rights anterior to or separable from the context in which they originally emerged—what the Declaration of Independence… »

  • Articles of Confederation
  • Carl Jones
  • Luther Martin
  • M.E. Bradford
  • Patrick Henry
  • Southern Conservatism
  • United States Constitution

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