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Southern Culture

Dumping Dixie Beer

By Christopher J. Carter

There’s a popular meme floating around the internet that has a middle-aged, pot-bellied, suburban male standing by a charcoal fire with the caption below reading, “I just want to grill for God’s sake!” It has… »

  • Christopher J. Carter
  • Dixie Beer
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition

Hank Williams Was Their Prophet and Tradition Was Their King

By Travis Holt

The story I’m about to tell is one of the many coming from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Hardscrabble existence was a way of life with our pioneers, and it was no different in my… »

  • Hank Williams
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Music
  • Southern Tradition
  • Travis Holt

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

The Eyes of Our Fathers

By Travis Holt

Coming from a small, truly united community, I have many places that are dear to me that I often visit. One of these is a small city, located in the town where I grew up.… »

  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • Southern Tradition
  • Travis Holt

Sampson County and the Defense of Western Civilization

By Boyd Cathey

Sampson County is a large, mostly rural county in southeastern North Carolina. Like most non-metropolitan areas of the state, it tends to be conservative, in fact, a long-time bastion of the modern Republican Party in… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Confederate Monuments
  • Confederate Symbols
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition
  • Yankees

Authority vs. Power

By Aaron Gleason

This morning a good friend sent me an article from The Imaginative Conservative (easily one of the best “blogs”) that outlined Robert Nisbet’s ten conditions of revolution. The piece is excellent and very worth reading… »

  • Aaron Gleason
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Political Tradition

The Guns of September

By Travis Archie

Reminiscences and Ramblings of a Novice Wing-Shooter It was the First of September, 2019 and there I sat, in the pre-dawn twilight, half asleep and fighting the near irresistible temptation, provided by the comfortable blanket… »

  • Hunting
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Sports
  • Southern Tradition
  • Travis Archie

Henry Miller’s Air-Conditioned Nightmare

By Mike Goodloe

Travel writing about the American South is a genre of its own.   One such observer was Henry Miller, who traveled through the South in 1941.  Miller was born in 1891 in New York City and… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Henry Miller
  • Mike Goodloe
  • Northern Studies
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition

Thirty Pieces of Silver

By Travis Holt

“Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O’Hara, that Tara, that land, doesn’t mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth workin’ for, worth fightin’ for, worth dyin’… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Arkansas
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition
  • Travis Holt

A Land Without Heroes

By Duncan Killen

What if there were 15.3 million dead American soldiers? Imagine it. Legions of the unburied down rows of summer corn, strewn along riverbanks, and discarded on roadsides. And imagine if many of the boys’ bodies… »

  • Confederate Monuments
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  • Duncan Killen
  • Robert E. Lee
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