50 Years Forward: 155 White Guys, the 1901 Constitution, and Birmingham’s Prosperity
Alabama David Sher’s “Comeback Town” has weighed in on Alabama’s 1901 Constitution. The 155 White guys who penned the 1901 Constitution are accused of creating […]
Alabama David Sher’s “Comeback Town” has weighed in on Alabama’s 1901 Constitution. The 155 White guys who penned the 1901 Constitution are accused of creating […]
Georgia As we explored last summer, free labor is unable to compete with slave labor in certain kinds of agriculture: Note: What incentive do black […]
Alabama I’m saving this comment here before it is deleted by the Al.com moderator: From 1960 to 2010, the population of Birmingham declined from 340,887 […]
Alabama 100 public officials and business leaders from Greensboro, NC recently came to Birmingham, AL on a trip to learn more about the best practices […]
United States Al.com has linked to a useful study by the Brookings Institution which showcases America’s imploding major cities: Note: The outside perimeter of most […]
Alabama Final Update: The Birmingham City Council has approved $300,000 in funding for the Honda Indy Grand Prix: “BIRMINGHAM, Alabama –The Birmingham City Council has approved […]
Alabama OD’s probe into racial favoritism and public funding of sporting events in Birmingham, Alabama continues to turn up some interesting results with the assistance […]
Alabama In recent weeks, OD has been taking a closer look at Birmingham, Alabama, which is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the events that were […]
Alabama Fifty years after the Civil Rights Movement, Selma and Birmingham have been ranked among the worst cities for business in Alabama: “With every best […]
Alabama It’s official. The Birmingham City Council, which leapt at the opportunity to support the scam that was Vulcan Bike Week, won’t be supporting the […]
California Here’s the latest domino to fall in “the collapse”: Note: Detroit, Jefferson County (AL), Prichard (AL), Vallejo, San Bernardino, Harrisburg, Iceland, Greece, Cyprus … […]
Alabama In the previous article, we saw that the Birmingham City Council voted not to sign a contract with the promoters of the Honda Indy Grand Prix […]
Alabama Paul Kersey of SBPDL.com recently published his latest book on Amazon, The Tragic City: Birmingham, 1963-2013, which tells the true story of how the City […]
Alabama NPR investigates Greensboro in Hale County (AL) where 1 in 4 working age adults are receiving a $1,000 disability check a month: “In rural […]
Alabama David Sher, who runs The Comeback Town, has been making the argument for city-county consolidation in the Birmingham metro area on the basis that […]
Alabama After poking around some more on David Sher’s hilarious DWL website The Comeback Town, I noticed that Birmingham was recently ranked 197 out of 200 […]
New York Gary North: “My objection to Kunstler begins with the title of his website. I choose not to repeat it here. You can click […]
Red America In The Wall Street Journal, Joel Kotkin expands on his argument of an emerging divide between an economically ascendant but politically declining Red America […]
Dixie Michael Lind has a new anti-Southern article out in Salon: “Contemporary American politics cannot be understood apart from the North-South divide in the U.S., […]
VDARE Do you remember the free trade agreement with South Korea that Obama signed in his first term and which he promised would create American […]
District of Corruption In his 2013 State of the Union Address, Obama announced that he is working on the “Trans-Pacific Partnership” free trade agreement and […]
Dixie In Forbes, demographer Joel Kotkin sees the Sunbelt South becoming even more dominant in economic power as the “new breed of carpetbaggers” flee the […]
South Carolina Here’s the link to the SNN podcast with Palmetto Patriot about my review of James C. Cobb’s The South and America Since World […]
Dixie The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry is Volume 11 of a 24 part series sponsored by the Center for the Study of […]
Mississippi Here’s another excerpt from Chuck Thompson’s Better Off Without ‘Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession which is part of a roundtable discussion on […]
Dixie In terms of chicken broilers, chicken eggs, rice, and cotton among other things, the South disproportionately contributes to American agriculture. Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, and […]
Spain In spite of the media spin, the bottom line coming out of Catalonia’s elections is that the four separatist parties won a clear majority […]
Spain The Spanish state of Catalonia is holding elections on Sunday which are expected to return a strong pro-independence majority in the Catalan regional parliament: […]
American South Here’s the average life expectancy at birth for American slaves in 1850 compared to the life expectancy of various “free” populations around the […]
American South Here’s an excellent excerpt from Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery which eviscerates the economic argument for the abolition of […]
CSA, 1890 AD Andrew Hamilton has another excellent article on the Confederacy at Counter-Currents. While I mostly agree with his conclusions, I want to use […]
Confederate States of America My copy of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery arrived this morning. […]
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