Thanks to the mocking words of a certain writer for The New Yorker, we’ve had to take a long, hard look at our Southernness. And we’ve completely reconsidered what a Real Southern Man is.
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To Paleo or not to Paleo?
February 12, 2013 
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That seems to be the question these days, as the Paleo Diet is sweeping the nation. Today, two Real Southern Men take on this dicey topic with two very different points of view.
Read more Reclaiming the Traditional Southern Diet
February 12, 2013 3 Comments
Our ancestors were the original hipsters – eating “free-range” meat, organic vegetables and fruits, drinking milk from pastured cows. Their food came from the land; it was there that it originated. It was consumed close to the land, and they loved the land and respected it.
Read more Grits from Heaven: Why I don’t do Paleo
February 12, 2013 3 Comments
Judging by social media and conversations with friends, everyone is adopting the Paleo Diet, which, as the name implies, requires you to eat only rocks.
Read more Our Hidden History: A Response to The New Yorker
January 15, 2013 24 Comments
RSM founder Wayne Franklin responds to the portrayal of this site in a recent column by George Packer of the New Yorker.
Read more Echoes of Shiloh: Historic School Decays in Cattle Pasture
January 15, 2013 1 Comment
I stumbled upon this haunting echo of the Old South while driving the back roads near Starr, S.C.
Read more God. Family. Football. A Twanglish Lesson
January 10, 2013 13 Comments
People from other regions see our devotion to football in this part of the country as misplaced, or even delusional. They’re wrong.
Read more We didn’t secede from the Internet! (Catching up on some Real Southern News)
November 28, 2012 1 Comment
Now … what have we missed while we’ve been away? Oh, yeah! The world came to an end one Tuesday in November … or was saved from itself …
Read more RSMU – Week 8 Picks
October 20, 2012 0 Comments
Here we are at the midpoint of the college football regular season. Alabama, Oregon, Florida, Notre Dame and a handful of other teams remain undefeated. The RSM pickers, sadly, do not. Let’s get to the picks! This week’s games: LSU at Texas A&M Virginia Tech at Clemson Auburn at Vanderbilt Wake Forest at Virginia South […]
Read more Real Southern Rules: Shameless Self-Promotion
October 16, 2012 0 Comments
We live in an age of self-promotion. And I’m just as bad as anyone about it. Sadly, this situation is just further proof of the fact that I’m no Real Southern Man, because …
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