Ode to Southern women, the girls who’ve been whooping asses longer than anybody should have to.
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Still on Subsistence: Redneck Survival and The Walking Dead
Crossbows, accents, and bad bitches. The Walking Dead is the white trash Game of Thrones.
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Meth Mouth
As if you needed to know the various ways policies have ignored the meth epidemic.
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Guilt, Shame & the Southern Imaginary
We can feel guilt or shame about our ancestors. Or we can drink a lot and get to work.
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Posted on The Baffler
DACA, undocumented-gay-boylesque-dancing Alabamans, and what Trump got wrong–per usual–in the State of the Union.
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The Possum and the First Lady
George Jones and Tammy Wynette were both legacies. I think she got the short shrift.
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No Pleasure but Meanness: The Untold History of the Kingpin of Organized Crime in Alabama
Willie Dewitt Dawson drove a black Lincoln Continental with “kingpin” on the front license plate. Don’t piss off the boys from Alabama.
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