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Ode to The Catfish (Stuff the Other White People Like, and A Whole Lot of Black People, Too)

Beth Arnold | Posted 07.18.2008 | Living

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Beth Arnold

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 ...

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Obama's Sort Of Audacious Southern Strategy

Ben Mishkin | Posted 07.03.2008 | Home

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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.

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How Obama Can Win the White House

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Bush and the GOP's domestic fumbles are potentially Obama's biggest selling point. He must repeatedly remind voters that they should be mad about the economy.

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No Longer Staring Into the Abyss of an Obama-Clinton Ticket

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

Clinton's increasingly desperate quest to show something for her decades of campaigning has taken on a vaguely insane turn, for which we should be grateful, even as it makes us queasy.

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Reverend Wright In Jesse Helms's North Carolina

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 04.28.2008 | Home

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Mayhill Fowler

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.

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Clinton: Not Exactly The Great White Hope

Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

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.

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Bill and Hillary: Just Regular Folk in North Carolina

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 04.25.2008 | Home

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Mayhill Fowler

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."

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Sacrificing Car Windows For Obama In Alabama

Mark J. Hainds | Posted 04.23.2008 | Home

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Mark J. Hainds

People are surprised to see the Obama bumper sticker next to an Alabama license plate on a Ford F150, four-wheel drive pickup. So surprised down here that one of them broke my window.

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Standing Sexual Politics on Its Head

Ellen Feldman | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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Ellen Feldman

The pressure to vote for gender rather than policy and personal substance reminds me once again of the Scottsboro case which turned sexual politics on its head for half the twentieth century.

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Democratic Electoral Shift In November?

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Professional pundits like conventional wisdom. It's comfortable for them to say what "everyone knows" with the voice of authority. But, seeing how o...

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Huckabee Pwns Limbaugh

Jane Hamsher | Posted 12.24.2007 | Home

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Jane Hamsher

Huckabee is a messenger who will be taken seriously in a way the left never could, and I imagine also in a way that Rush is going to have a hard time competing with.

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The Edwards Mystery

Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

Edwards has been inconsistent, both in his positions and in his behavior. How many "mistakes," as he has openly called a number of his previous decisions, can he expect us to move beyond?

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Thompson, Romney Take From Southerners Over Confederate Flag Comments

ABC News | Christine Byun | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics

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ABC News' Christine Byun Reports: As GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson wrapped his South Carolina campaign visit, he had a small handful of prote...

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Thompson's Southern Strategy Could Backfire In Iowa, NH

CNN | Posted 10.06.2007 | Home

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In South Carolina, the former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson's campaign is fond of pointing out their boss' Southern-fried heritage. "I think first of ...

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