Matt offers a slightly new view of the Republican "southern strategy": It's true that the recent political success of the GOP has an enormous amount to do with the party's success in the white south, ...

The French say it best: “Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose.” Roughly translated: “The more things change, the more things stay the same.” It’s true on many fronts, but especially in politics, ...

Recommended reading from a few days ago: Angie Maxwell, the director of the Diane Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society at the University of Arkansas, distills into a Washington Post column ...

In the 1950s, a young white Arkansas war veteran with an eighth-grade education and two young children supplemented his night-shift warehouse job by running a one-man garbage route in the rural part ...

Most Americans have heard the story of the "Southern strategy": The Republican Party, in the wake of the civil rights movement, decided to court Southern white voters by capitalizing on their racial ...

Persuading Southern autoworkers to join a union remains one of the U.S. labor movement’s most enduring challenges, despite persistent efforts by the United Auto Workers union to organize this ...

(The Root) — Republicans have devised an insidious plan to steal the 2012 presidential election, and it’s a page torn from the history books about Jim Crow South. The Brennan Center for Justice at New ...

President Obama's executive action on immigration is, as The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf so pithily put it, "the right thing in the wrong way." Granting a broad amnesty to illegal immigrants in the ...

Historically, the Confederate flag is a symbol of the Democratic Party. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that ...

Democrats were hoping for a massive repudiation of the Republican Party under Trump, and a chance to strike out in a far more progressive direction. What they got instead was a much more muted victory ...

Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. One year after Arizona’s dread SB 1070 took effect, progressives have transferred their fear and loathing to the 2011 ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami/NSF) -- Lobbying firm Southern Strategy Group reported collecting at least $1 million from April 1st to June 30th, according to state website. Lobbying firms were required to post ...