News From Around the South, 10/14 to 10/21

News From Around the South, 10/14 to 10/21

LOUISIANA: The Fall of Confederate Shreveport SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – During the American Civil War, eleven Southern cities were badly damaged or destroyed and almost 116,000 people were displaced. That’s a little more than 1% of the South’s entire population....
Are Minorities Voting Increasingly Like Republicans?

‘The Message’ and The Interview

On Sept. 30, bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates appeared on the “CBS Mornings” show to promote his book “The Message,” which is a one-sided critique of Israel as an apartheid state. The book compares Israel to the “Jim Crow South”...
News From Around the South 10/7 to 10/14

News From Around the South 10/7 to 10/14

ALABAMA — Montgomery High School Student Starts Petition To Change City Flag The flag, which incorporates Confederate symbols, was selected in 1952 by a committee that included Marie Bankhead Owen, a Lost Cause propagandist. The American Civil War ended in the...
Are Minorities Voting Increasingly Like Republicans?

Not All Lies Are Created Equal

It never ends. The press still does not know how to handle the avalanche of lies that is MAGA’s chief contribution to our national life. I understand, sort of. It’s dull and time-consuming to bird-dog every false accusation, wild assertion or factual...