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Southern Partisan is a controversial neo-confederate magazine. It is notorious for its defense of Ku Klux Klan leaders and the assasination of Abraham Lincoln. The neo-confederate movement is a political and cultural movement based in the U.S. Southern states that is characterized by celebration of the history of the Confederate States of America (CSA) and support for the CSAs aims. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... assassin, see Assassin (disambiguation) Jack Ruby assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald in a very public manner. ... Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th (1861–1865) President of the United States, and the first president from the Republican Party. ...


In 1998, according to Time, John Ashcroft said in the magazine that it has done a great job of defending Southern patriots like Robert E. Lee. 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Notable Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) was the 79th Attorney General of the United States. ... Robert Edward Lee, as a U.S. Army Colonel before the war Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a career army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. ...


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Southern Partisan magazine: Taking Sides [Free Republic] (3905 words)
Southern Partisan has operated quietly for most of its 21-year history, publishing a quarterly magazine described by its editors as equal parts of the conservative criticism from the National Review, the historical word-pictures from Civil War Times Illustrated, and the recipes and travelogues from Southern Living.
Southern Partisan's current delays are due in part to editor Chris Sullivan's activities on behalf of some political candidates last year, and in part due to the crash and complete loss of the hard drives of two of Southern Partisan's computers.
Southerners never took the painful steps necessary to end, on their own terms, the institutions of slavery and segregation that they, as pragmatist republicans and men of intelligence, should have known were eventually going to bring them into losing conflict with the rest of the country and the world.
Sample Chapter for Lublin, D.: The Republican South: Democratization and Partisan Change. (11606 words)
Southern political developments over the past several decades should not be viewed merely as a routine process of partisan change but as the long-term result of the South's democratization.
The end of the complete dominance of southern politics by the Democrats and their shifting of policy positions on race were the natural consequences of the great expansion of the franchise not only among fls but among whites as well.
Southern congressional delegations worked to advance southern interests on a number of fronts, but their primary goal was to protect the South against federal interference in the continuation of the "southern way of life"--that ever-so-polite euphemism for fl political and economic subordination.
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