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Secession

Secession’s Magic Numbers, Part One

By Terry Hulsey

A serial review of books numbering the States after a dissolution of the Union. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard; ISBN: 978-0-14-312202-9, Penguin, September 25,… »

  • Book Review
  • Colin Woodard
  • Secession
  • Southern Culture
  • Terry Hulsey

A (Maryland) Southern Hero

By Paul Callahan

Early in the civil war President Lincoln had Federal Troops occupy the State of Maryland.  Though the power vested only with the US Congress, Mr. Lincoln also took it upon himself to suspend the writ… »

  • Maryland
  • Paul Callahan
  • Ricahrd Bennett Carmichael
  • Secession
  • War for Southern Independence

A Red and Blue Divorce?

By Paul H. Yarbrough

The red and the blue—states that is– are as different as the colorless black and white landscapes absent from the color spectrum. The concept of separate states for separate cultures is as old as Canaan… »

  • Paul Yarbrough
  • Secession
  • Southern Political Tradition
  • War for Southern Independence

Secession: The Point of the Spear

By Terry Hulsey

Secession: The point of the spear aimed at the heart of the American Leviathan – or so I once thought. Certainly secession has been a live idea in Europe for a long time, often under… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Donald Livingston
  • Secession
  • Terry Hulsey
  • United States Constitution

Is Separation the Answer?

By Boyd Cathey

As of Friday, November 6, the votes are still being counted in at least six states. The large pro-Trump margins that seemed to prevail late election night have now disappeared as mail in votes, many… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Donald Trump
  • Joe Biden
  • Secession
  • United States Constitution

How Arizona Seceded From the Union

By Steve Lee

The United States acquired a vast area of the Southwest with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (May 30, 1848), which included all or part of the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico,… »

  • Arizona
  • Confederate States of America
  • Secession
  • Steve Lee
  • War for Southern Independence

Secession Becomes Thinkable

By Donald Livingston

A review of American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup (Encounter Books, 2020) by F.H. Buckley When asked whether a state can constitutionally secede from the United States, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia brushed… »

  • Book Review
  • Donald Livingston
  • Featured
  • Secession

The Polls, Donald Trump, and Secession

By Boyd Cathey

Far too many pundits and commentators live and die by polls. It seems that each day some on-air talking head or online spinmeister reveals breathlessly increasingly bad results for President Trump and anyone who dares… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Donald Trump
  • Secession
  • Southern Politics

A Simple Explanation

By Valerie Protopapas

What separated the Jeffersonian understanding of government embraced by the South from the philosophy of Lincoln and the people of the North? For if Lincoln had believed as Jefferson, the war would not have happened.… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Secession
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Valerie Protopapas
  • War for Southern Independence

Gaslighting Dixie’s Stateless People

By James Ronald Kennedy

Since 2015, it has become standard fare for the left to accuse President Trump of “Gaslighting,” meaning that the President uses his position of power to provide false data to confuse and therefore dominate Americans.… »

  • James Ronald Kennedy
  • Secession
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern People
  • Southern Tradition

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