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Southern Political Tradition

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

A Neo-Confederate Prediction of Post-Election America

By Marshall DeRosa

The political chaos that has accompanied President Trump’s first term will not abate anytime soon. From the Russian Collusion hoax to rioting in the streets to the public policy responses to the Covid-19 so-called pandemic,… »

  • Confederate States Constitution
  • Donald Trump
  • Joe Biden
  • Marshall DeRosa
  • Southern Political Tradition
  • United States Constitution

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

Federalists Still Attack Calhoun

By Barry Clark

John C. Calhoun was the last eloquent political philosopher to stand against the ideology and intentions of the Federalists. He was the last to stand firmly in the halls of the Senate and articulate exactly… »

  • Barry Clark
  • John C. Calhoun
  • John Daniel Davidson
  • Southern Political Tradition
  • United States Constitution

Democracy vs. Aristocracy in Virginia in 1830

By Jeffrey R. Brackett

There is in some of our libraries a certain book which the writer of this article ventures to believe is not gener­ally as familiar as it should be to the student of politics. For himself,… »

  • Abel P. Upshur
  • Democracy
  • James Madison
  • James Monroe
  • Jeffrey R. Brackett
  • John Randolph of Roanoke
  • Southern Political Tradition
  • Virginia
  • William Branch Giles

The Limits of a Politics of Tolerance

By John Devanny

Secession, nullification, and interposition, like the poor, we shall always have with us. These are as American, indeed more American, than apple pie and baseball. Our new federal union, outlined in the Constitution written at… »

  • John Devanny
  • Secession
  • Southern Political Tradition

Remembering Real Southern Statesmen

By Boyd Cathey

Over the years I have known a few—very few—politicians whom I have admired greatly. It seems that the age of those remarkable statesmen and political leaders who once gave substance and guidance to this nation… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Hamilton Horton
  • Jesse Helms
  • Southern Political Tradition

The Southern Tradition Promotes Domestic Peace

By Marcus Ruiz Evans

I want to tell you a story that you won’t read in the mainstream news. It is a positive story, about people from different backgrounds, who have different cultures, coming together to work for a… »

  • California
  • Marcus Ruiz Evans
  • Secession
  • Southern Political Tradition

The Southern Critique of Centralization

By Donald Livingston

The Southern political tradition, in practice and theory, is one of its most valuable contributions to America and the world. The one constant theme of that tradition from 1776–through Jefferson, Madison, John Taylor, St George… »

  • Donald Livingston
  • Nullification
  • Secession
  • Southern Political Tradition
  • Southern Tradition

John C. Calhoun and “State’s Rights”

By James Rutledge Roesch

  The following is an abridged version of a chapter which will appear in the forthcoming, From Founding Fathers to Fire-Eaters: The Constitutional Doctrine of States’ Rights in the Old South  “Union among ourselves is… »

  • James Rutledge Roesch
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Secession
  • Southern History
  • Southern Political Tradition
  • State's Rights
  • United States Constitution

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