Today on the Golden Circle podcast we discuss one of the most important early Southern nationalist leaders, William L Yancey, and his struggles against Democratic partisans in the late 1840s. We quote from Eric Walther’s book The Fire-Eaters and find some similarities between the situation in the South then and now.

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Tags: election of 1848, fire eaters, southern democrats, southern secessionists, william lowndes yancey

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