Thank you for visiting our humble blog. Here on the Main Page you can find a curated collection, updated on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, of news stories relevant to political progressives across the South. On The Feed you can find an automated RSS collection of all the local blogs, left, right and center we review daily to source these stories, while on State by State Blogs you can find a listing and links to these same sources.
This website previously ran from 2013 until 2015, when the posters took a break to transition from being full time politicos to budding young attorneys. We started with a long term goal of organizing the South. Growing up in the deep South that goal struck many as quixotic. On a superficial level, there was a lot of reason to think that it was. In recent decades both conservative and progressive Democrats were in continual decline as the parties completed their realignment along racial lines. Many states saw Democrats slide or sometimes be pushed through voting restrictions and re-districting to permanent minority status, with minorities in state legislatures, no statewide Democratic officeholders, and party apparatuses that could barely coordinate well enough to keep the lights on let alone support electoral efforts.
Yet during our hiatus the embers of community mindedness and skepticism of economic royalists that has always been a part of progressive and Southern Democratic thinking have found new kindling in demographic forces and the efforts of gifted strategists. Demography has led Virginia to be regarded by many as reliably Democratic. The efforts of the Hon. Stacey Abrams took similar demographic forces and, with strategic brilliance, delivered Georgia’s sixteen electoral votes to President Biden and Vice President Harris, the first African-American woman to be hold national office. Meanwhile, American conservatism has devolved into insanity as it faces the end of its second disastrous Presidency in as many decades. Conservative power in the Senate, House, and White House rely on dominance of the South. For these reasons and more, now is the time to strike. Now is the time to read and learn and connect so we can seize the opportunities when they arise. Please join us in that project.