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Southern Politics

This is why the Founding Generation Crafted the 2nd Amendment

By Lewis Liberman

With the current heated debate over gun rights and the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution (which serves to affirm our natural rights…rights we have whether the State recognizes them or not), I thought… »

  • Lewis Liberman
  • Southern Founders
  • Southern History
  • Southern Politics

Remember Mississippi

By Paul Gottfried

A review of Remember Mississippi: How Chris McDaniel Exposed the GOP Establishment and Inspired a Revolution (WND, 2017) by Ryan S. Walters. Ryan S. Walters, who is book review editor for Abbeville Institute and editor… »

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  • Chris McDaniel
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The Historical Folly of “Nothing but Race.”

By Boyd Cathey

At the base of most of the ongoing political debates currently raging in the United Sates there are always, it seems, deeper questions, more philosophical and more historical contexts that need to be examined—what I… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Democrat Party
  • Jim Crow
  • Nat Turner
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  • Sam Ervin
  • Slavery
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New South Voices of the Southern Tradition

By Brion McClanahan

Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. As scholars dedicated to exploring what is true and valuable in the Southern tradition, we are most often drawn to the antebellum South and the early federal… »

  • Brion McClanahan
  • Eugene Genovese
  • I'll Take My Stand
  • New South
  • Richard M. Weaver
  • Southern Economics
  • Southern Lit
  • Southern Politics
  • Southern Tradition

Fired in Washington

By Christina Jeffrey

The Left is wringing its hands and talking about impeachment because of the Comey firing, but it has a very short memory–its hands resemble Lady MacBeth’s- dripping with the blood of Republicans they have savaged… »

  • Christina Jeffrey
  • Newt Gingrich
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Politics
  • Spoils

Republican Death Wish

By Thomas Landess

As readers of this column well know, I have never really trusted the Republican Party. Even in 1962, when I first worked actively for a Republican candidate (the late Bill Workman), I saw the arrogance… »

  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Politics
  • Thomas H. Landess

On Liberty

By Thomas Fleming

Andy Jackson’s famous toast, “The Union—it must and shall be preserved,” is still recorded in most high school U.S. history books. Calhoun’s once equally famous reply, “Next to our liberties, most dear,” has slipped out… »

  • Liberty
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Politics
  • Thomas Fleming

The South’s Gonna Do It Again

By Thomas Fleming

A few days ago I ran into an old friend, an historian, who started in on the Partisan. “I’ve lived all my life in the South,” he grumbled, “but I don’t see what makes Southern… »

  • Charlie Daniels
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  • Thomas Fleming

Liberal and Conservative

By Clyde Wilson

The terms “liberal” and “conservative” were usable signs in a society in which the state was governed by politics. They are of little use the in 21st century United States because “politics” no longer plays… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Southern Politics

If This Be Treason….

By Clyde Wilson

The polls show that 33 per cent of the public still gives Dubya Bush a favourable approval rating.  Who could these people be? Some of them, no doubt, are well-meaning dupes in the early stages… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Politics

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