The United States is not a Nation
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*By Brion McClanahan*
I have often required my students on the first day or two of class to use
the Oxford English Dictionary and define the following wor...
Civil War related Facebook Groups
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Here are the largest Civil War-related Facebook groups I could find:
American Civil War Battlefields - 3,165 members
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=...
GRAVY 34 ONLINE NOW
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Gravy, Issue 34, is now online here. Inside this issue:A Plague of Cornbread, by Linda MonkIndian Truck Stop Eats, by Bill AddisonWednesday Greens and Sunda...
"Best Of " Thanksgiving Post
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Both state and federal governments in the United States ought to take a very
simple lesson from America's first failed experiment with socialism.
The Pilg...
Still here
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Coming off the flu, I had the bonus experience in the demise of my laptop’s
motherboard, so… with my backup computer a rather antiquated piece of work,
pos...
2009 Blue & Gray Reenactment at Moorpark
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We will be at the 2009 Blue & Gray Reenactment of Moorpark this weekend and
will enjoy seeing many friends in the California Civil War community. This
is t...
Nov/Dec ’09 Update
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The November/December issue is in the mail and should start showing up in
mailboxes late next week (last week of October). The deadline for the
January/Feb...
Remember… Marylanders were Southerners too!
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But, before you break out in song with “Maryland, My Maryland,” just
remember, the song does not reflect the feelings of all Marylanders in 1861.
Many a Ma...
Mud March
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Now, I'm not the type of blogger to get upset about every thing our
opponents say, but this video (see image) is really *too* much. General
Burnside, who ...
How To Speak Southern
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Addled: Confused, disoriented, as in the case of Northern sociologists who
try to make sense out of the South, "What's wrong with that Yankee? He acts
righ...
“Colored Folks of the Antebellum Days”
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From the Page News & Courier ca. 1937 The veteran colored folks of Luray
were born before the gory days of the sixties but lived in the memory of
later gen...
In Memory of William Pace
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My Paternal 5X Great Grandfather
By William Potter
He was a soldier in the American Revolution. He was transferred to the
Commander-in-Chief's Guard, und...
Stereotyping Cuts Both Ways
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So often, Southerners are admonished to avoid stereotyping people. That’s a
nice way for them to say, “quit being such intolerant bigots.” Let’s take a
loo...
Moving forward
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This next week, I will be relocating to Emmaus, Pennsylvania, to take up the
pastorate at St. Paul Orthodox Church. As such, I'm also going to be moving
my...
The Royal Collection
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This evening when I got home from work my wife told me that the Obama's had
given the Queen of England an iPod. I thought at first that it might have
been...
The purpose of this site is to host a variety of feeds and opinions covering the South; to reflect the South the way it is, not the conservative utopian way I want it to be. I needed a place besides my bookmarks to keep track of good Southern stuff.
To sanitize things for political correctness sake and exclude confederate and heritage sites would not be honest nor would it give a fair view of the South. At the same time, having just all confederate stuff would be just as incomplete.
And no "white race survival" stuff either. I don't like people who constantly try to play the victim. And that's all those sites are- white people pretending to be victims (and pretending there is a common white culture, and pretending they represent it).
