Southern States News

NAACP opposes dance to celebrate South secession

By theGrio

3:48 PM on 12/20/2010

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Monday's ball is like having a dance to celebrate the attack on Pearl Harbor, said Lonnie Randolph...
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Why celebrate secession? Civil War revisionists sidestep slavery

By David A. Love

8:23 AM on 12/03/2010

OPINION - What is troubling about this glorification of secession, and the efforts to preserve it, is its whitewashing of slavery, if not its total elimination from the equation...
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Election nearly wipes out white Southern Dems

By theGrio

10:00 AM on 11/05/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - The white Southern Democrat -- endangered since the 1960s civil rights era enraged whites across the Southeast -- is sliding nearer to extinction...
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Southern states 'opted-out' of civil rights too

By David A. Love

8:30 AM on 10/29/2009

OPINION - The Republicans have been reduced to their hyper-conservative core, which is united in a hatred of government...
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