The po' white south makes up most of the uninsured. Chew on that for a while. Then ask yourself where the strongest opposition to health reform comes from (hint: it's red states).
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
While overbroad and inaccurate analysis of the extremist risk is often faulty and bigoted, it can sometimes be equally humorous.
D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics
If I must accept a party affiliation as a label, it would most likely be the religious left. If that sounds weird to you, it's merely a testament to the excellent job the right has done to brand itself as the party of the faithful.
Miami Herald | Tania Valdemoro | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Organizers will go ahead with the popular Veterans' Day parade in Homestead despite the controversy over a group marching for the first time with the ...
William Bradley | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
The "Manchurian Candidate" fantasy is alive and well in Republican ranks. And is it a long-term problem that they are largely opposed to the first black president and first brown Supreme Court justice?...You bet.
The National Journal | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
Founded in the decade before the Civil War as the Northern voice of union, the Republican Party today is more electorally dependent on the South than ...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
There is little doubt that the country has made a political left-turn, leaving opportunistic moderates from both parties scrambling to find their cherished middle.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics
The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race
Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics
The Republican strategy sounds like the demon child of Mao's Cultural Revolution and Stalin's five-year plans: a criminal intolerance of social differences combined with an outrageously failed economic policy.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
Like millions of white Americans, I voted for our new black President, and I did so with confidence and enthusiasm, as I would have voted for a savior come to rescue our nation.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
Beyond its regional concentration, the Republican Party's face is from another time. Indeed, nearly half of the Republican caucus is composed of Southern white men.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 12.19.2008 | Business
There is good reason to believe that South America, in particular, can weather this storm with minimal damage if it adopts the right macro-economic policies.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.04.2008 | Media
I've been on tour in the swing states of Appalachia these days -- southern Ohio, West Virginia, southwest Virginia -- having crisscrossed through Indi...
Yuna Shin | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home
Wilmington, N.C. -- Polls have shown Obama slightly ahead of McCain in North Carolina for the last few weeks. Can this be true? North Carolina has n...
Erik Ose | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
During the '84 NC Senate race, one of Helms' top aides responsible for implementing a gay-bashing strategy was McCain advisor Charlie Black.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 11.25.2008 | Living
Hardly anyone mentions that the "the Bible Belt" and "the Black Belt" refer to essentially the same part of the country. That easily overlooked fact is of enormous significance.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business
We need to make communities strong again. Our local money does not need to be mixed in with some guy's hedge fund abstract tranche of nothing all to make a fee for some banker in New York.
Paige Donner | Posted 11.06.2008 | Entertainment
"When you look at the future from the POV of the South, labor, migration, border security...all these issues, including privatization of water, waterworks, aqua terrorism loom large."
Bob Vanderet | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home
As electoral projections suggest Barack Obama might win by a landslide, John McCain's campaign once again tries to cast Obama as the Angry Black Terrorist who, in Sarah Palin's words, "doesn't see America the same way you and I do."
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
Don't buy into the media narrative that this is some sort of "divided party" -- because today's Democrats aren't. All true Democrats are pulling hard to defeat the legacy of George W. Bush.
Beth Arnold | Posted 07.26.2008 | Living
It was sad news to read of the decline of Southern catfish farms in today's New York Times. The farmers are going under because the cost of corn and ...
Ben Mishkin | Posted 07.10.2008 | Home
Barack Obama's "Southern Strategy" based on expected "historic turnout in the African-American community" has come under scrutiny recently, setting off a new round of debate on the matter in the blogosphere.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home
Reverend Wright is a problem in North Carolina. Down-ticket Dems hare already injecting race into their races. Jesse Helms was such a force in this state for so long that "some of that" is still lingering.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics
Were Hillary the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have been able to dispatch a presidential neophyte like Barack Obama.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.03.2008 | Home
In Asheboro, Bill Clinton keeps it southern and small, ambling through a series of dinner pail concerns-- bills, schools, jobs-- the end point of which is always: "Hillary'll get that done for you."
D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics