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WASHINGTON, December 24, 2014 — For tens of millions of southerners the December 6 runoff loss of Louisiana U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu to Rep. Bill Cassidy represented the epic opening of a new age in America. This region is now a solid conservative south for the first time since Democrats seized control just after the end of the Civil War. For a region of the nation that stretches from the Carolinas to Texas, this is massive and so is the impact of this new Red, White and Blue American Wave. Here a New South Rises. How the new south...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The mayor of Memphis on Wednesday rejected calls to rename three parks that honor the Confederacy, saying the city should focus on being part of the New South and stop worrying about remnants of the Old South. Mayor Willie Herenton, who like 60 percent of Memphis residents is black, said public fighting over the parks would only hurt the city's image, which is still tarnished by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. "We do not need another event that portrays Memphis nationally as a city still racially polarized and fighting the Civil War all...

The Kickoff Rally for George Fassitt, the Republican Candidate for Biloxi City Council's Newly Created Sixth Ward and potentially the first African American GOP member will be held at the Biloxi Beachfront Hotel, 2400 Beach Boulevard, Biloxi, Mississippi 39531. The date is March 10, 2005 at 11:00 a.m., and refreshments will be served. Whether or not you can make it, contributions are gladly appreciated and checks may be sent to: Campaign to Elect George Fassitt P.O. Box 4201 Biloxi MS 39532. The number is (228)209-2652 George, a successful mortgage broker and ordained minister, is attempting to become the first African-American...

It's not your Faulkner's South, sociologist says By Art Jester HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER There comes the famous moment in William Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom! (1936) when Mississippi's Quentin Compson is asked by Shreve McCannon, his Canadian roommate at Harvard, to tell about the South, its people and how they live. The fictional response that Faulkner spun out bore a certain truth for his time, and even today. But his saga doesn't -- it couldn't -- include the massive transformation of the nation's most bedeviled and enchanting region over the last 40 years. Why, if Mr. Bill Faulkner had been in...

If I heard him correctly, according to Zell Miller, there are 33,000 blacks holding public office in the South. When making his point, he mentions that for this to happen, districts which are predominantly white have to be populated by something other than people who fit the modern Democrat stereotype of the region....(SNIP) The New South is new in only a few ways. Tolerance and respect for two. Unlike the North, religion still holds sway. The dirty, cold cities of the North, dominated as they are by liberals, have spayed the church there. But, in the south, on a Sunday,...