Nick Baumann

"Paisley wants to know how he can express his Southern Pride. Here are some ways. He could hold a huge party on Martin Luther King’s birthday, to celebrate a Southerner’s contribution to the world of democracy. He could rock a T-shirt emblazoned with Faulkner’s Light In August, and celebrate the South’s immense contribution to American literature. He could preach about the contributions of unknown Southern soldiers like Andrew Jackson Smith. He could tell the world about the original Cassius Clay. He could insist that Tennessee raise a statue to Ida B. Wells."

"By any measure of fidelity to the Constitution, Shelby County should be an easy case…"

"The groups on whom Obama depended are the ones that are growing; white men, the core Republican constituency, are a shrinking minority…. The future of the Grand Old Party will be determined by how well it adapts to the brand new Liberal America — indeed the Obama America — that is now here to stay."

"[T]he default assumption should be that if an able-bodied, law-abiding person wants to move here to get a job that’d be mutually beneficial."

"White Americans, in short, thought that anti-white bias was a greater societal problem by the ’00s than anti-black bias."

"If you’re black or gay or Hispanic or female, all the money in the world wouldn’t make the 50s a great place to live your life."