http://dir.salon.com/topics/south/?source=rss&aim=south en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT By Thomas Schaller Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/08/19/south_schaller/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/08/19/south_schaller/index.html?source=rss No economic-populism-inspired revivals are going to turn the region blue. Virginia's Jim Webb is a lonely exception. By Bob Moser Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/08/19/south_moser/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/08/19/south_moser/index.html?source=rss The author of "Blue Dixie" says don't give up on the region -- but don't pander to it with Clintonian centrism. Andrew O'Hehir Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/25/myths/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/25/myths/index.html?source=rss An arch, acute and haunting documentary about the segregated Mardi Gras traditions of Mobile, Ala., "The Order of Myths" might be the nonfiction film of the year. By Cary Tennis Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/07/11/dont_move_to_california/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/07/11/dont_move_to_california/index.html?source=rss I don't like California; I like it where I am! Ed Kilgore Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/07/10/obama_south/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/07/10/obama_south/index.html?source=rss Rep. Adam Putnam worries that black turnout could "swamp" Republicans in down-ballot races in the South. Is he right? By Cary Tennis Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/11/07/creative_duty/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/11/07/creative_duty/index.html?source=rss I know I am different. I know I go for broke. What if my gift is rejected? By Adam Roberts Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/food/eat_drink/2007/07/17/johnt_edge/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/food/eat_drink/2007/07/17/johnt_edge/index.html?source=rss John T. Edge, America's bard of Southern food, talks about Kool-Aid pickles, eating with the KKK, and how okra might be the ultimate tool of integration. By Cary Tennis Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/07/13/dying_southern_grandmother/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/07/13/dying_southern_grandmother/index.html?source=rss I finally escaped the deadly web of small-town Southern life. But it keeps pulling on me! By Garrison Keillor Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/05/02/keillor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/05/02/keillor/index.html?source=rss On an April day in Georgia, not even fried chicken and the scent of magnolia can make you forget the kids we're sending to die in a pointless war. By Cary Tennis Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/04/16/gun_ownership/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/04/16/gun_ownership/index.html?source=rss Like my father, I love and respect guns. But I'm conflicted. By Thomas F. Schaller Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/11/14/no_south/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/11/14/no_south/index.html?source=rss The party is doing fine, winning the Northeast, the West and the Midwest. So why is James Carville still pushing a Southern strategy? By Garrison Keillor Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/10/18/keillor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/10/18/keillor/index.html?source=rss Why do Southern folks elect regressive, warmongering politicians but still call you "sunshine" when they serve your coffee? By Garrison Keillor Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/08/02/keillor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/08/02/keillor/index.html?source=rss In this heat, even respectable Northerners want to shoot at beer cans and sing about the good old days on the plantation. By Juan Cole Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/07/19/maximal/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/07/19/maximal/index.html?source=rss Part of Israel's war strategy may be to push the Shiites out of Lebanon's south. That would be a humanitarian disaster -- and it won't work. By Mitchell Prothero Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/07/14/lebanon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/07/14/lebanon/index.html?source=rss A report from Lebanon's south, ravaged by retaliatory Israeli strikes. By Charles Taylor Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/02/01/branch/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/02/01/branch/index.html?source=rss The final volume of Taylor Branch's magisterial biography shows how Martin Luther King Jr. reached out to his enemies. His example should shame the shrill partisans on both sides of our poisonous cultural divide. By Sidney Blumenthal Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/07/08/john_edwards/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/07/08/john_edwards/index.html?source=rss Following the progressive tradition of Andrew Jackson, the North Carolina senator will challenge the GOP's divisive appeal. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/letters/2004/01/05/cold_mountain/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/letters/2004/01/05/cold_mountain/index.html?source=rss Haven't white Southerners suffered enough? Anyway, slavery is irrelevant to the plot (and geography) of "Cold Mountain." Readers respond to Stephanie Zacharek's review. By Suzi Parker Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/09/11/parker/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/09/11/parker/index.html?source=rss The author of "Sex in the South" whoops it up at a sex-toy sales meeting in Arkansas. By Michael Alvear Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/02/26/polite/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/02/26/polite/index.html?source=rss Could Southern politeness be hindering efforts to stop the spread of AIDS? By Joan Walsh Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/12/14/race/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/12/14/race/index.html?source=rss The GOP needs to do a lot more than rebuke Trent Lott to make up for its legacy of pandering to white bigots and suppressing the black vote. By Randall Williams Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/02/14/brasstown/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/02/14/brasstown/index.html?source=rss A bizarre tale of muskets, cross-dressing and marsupial hoisting in the Southern town once accused of hiding notorious fugitive Eric Rudolph. By Brian Libby Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/conv/2001/08/09/mockbee/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/conv/2001/08/09/mockbee/index.html?source=rss Amid architecture's increasing irrelevance, one man decided that poor people can have great houses. By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/08/31/lynching/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/08/31/lynching/index.html?source=rss A photography exhibit on the once-common horror misses a key part of its legacy: The federal government's hands-off policies. By Stanley Karnow Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/27/revisionists/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/27/revisionists/index.html?source=rss The revisionists who believe that the war was just -- and winnable -- are rewriting a history they don't understand.