One of the most common names for businesses in the Southern States these days is Sunbelt. It’s even the name of a major college sports conference that was created in 1976. How did the South become the Sunbelt? This is a question that author Frank Conner addresses on pages 450-451 of his book The South...
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A scene from the back deck.
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One of the theses of this site, supported by the events of history over the last two centuries, is that the Union with the Northern States (and in particular the New England States) was an unfortunate action taken by Southerners in the late eighteenth century. Had the South either (perhaps temporarily) remained part of...
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Former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs recently had some advice for Mitt Romney as he attempts to pander to Southerners in Mississippi and Alabama. Politico has the story: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Michigan native and former Massachusetts governor, has been struggling a bit to cross the Mason-Dixon cultural divide in primaries across...
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Dr J Michael Hill, of Alabama, is the president of the League of the South and the author of Celtic Warfare and Fire & Sword. He is also a frequent lecturer on Southern cultural issues. Dr Hill’s work with the League of the South has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Journal...
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An unfamiliar species of ants hyperactive, destructive ants is moving across Dixie, apparently causing quite a bit of damage. Janet McConnaughey writes about this invasive critter in a recent Associated Press article: It sounds like a horror movie: Biting ants invade by the millions. A camper’s metal walls bulge from the pressure of ants...
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Have the British people finally had enough of bailing out irresponsible governments around the Mediterranean and seeing more and more of their national sovereignty lost to the emerging bureaucratic state in Brussels? The Mail Online (UK) has the story about the possibility of a popular referendum on seceding from the European Union: A historic vote...
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A friend of mine and Southern sympathiser from Belfast sent in the following pictures taken outside his home there. I thought our readers might enjoy them. It is always nice to see folks, especially from closely related cultures, embracing our symbols and promoting connections between our peoples. Note: Each picture may be enlarged by...
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The debate over immigration in the United States today revolves around the often-repeated claim that the US is a “nation of immigrants.” Of course, there are problems with this assertion. First of all, there is no single US or American nation of people. The US is a multi-national, multi-ethnic and multi-racial conglomeration. The original...
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CNN is running an article about the explosion in the immigrant population in the US. The Southern States, which historically have seen very little immigration over the past 200 years, are favoured destinations for Third World immigrants from Latin America. Large families, combined with a continuous flow of hundreds of thousands of new immigrants,...
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Today marks 150 years since Tennessee declared independence from the United States on June 8, 1861. Unlike the other states, Tennessee actually called its secession document a declaration of Independence. Link DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND ORDINANCE dissolving the federal relations between the State of Tennessee and the United States of America. First. We, the...
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Public education has long been used by the Establishment to oppose Southern identity, values and culture. The trend is towards greater centralisation of this formerly de-centralised institution. In the SNN video below I talk about this problem, how it contributed towards my development into a Southern nationalist and what can be done about the...
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