by editor | Jan 25, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
TEXAS: Black Lawmakers Hope To See ‘Confederate Heroes Day’ Abolished Texas Democratic lawmakers have long tried to remove Confederate Heroes Day from calendars, and they have high hopes that 2021 could be the year it happens. The holiday comes just a day...
by editor | Jan 21, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Washington — It is a reflection of the vulgarity and even the criminality now stalking our society that social media, as it is called, cannot extricate itself from this awful question of censorship. Facebook, Twitter and all the other social media platforms that are...
by editor | Jan 20, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The first time I really looked into the history of pimento cheese, I wrote a long article that opened, “Pimento cheese has a dirty little secret. The ‘pâté of the South’ isn’t really very Southern at all.” What surprised me most at the...
by editor | Jan 19, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
That mob that split off from the Donald Trump rally of Jan. 6 to invade the Capitol has proven a godsend to the left. The death of a Capitol cop has enabled the left — which spent the summer after George Floyd’s death trashing “racist cops” and...
by editor | Jan 18, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
VIRGINIA: State Won’t Celebrate Confederate Holiday for First Time In 100+ Years The weekend before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is typically filled with community service events and gatherings to honor Dr. King’s lifetime career of social justice work. In...
by editor | Jan 14, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
In a terribly unsettled time in American history, there are a few voices on both sides of the political aisle calling for “healing” and “unity.” To say that these are desperately needed is an understatement. But merely wishing for it will not...