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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Reclaiming the Traditional Southern Diet
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.
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Grits from Heaven: Why I don’t do Paleo
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.
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Twanglish Lessons: Tell Big Momma and Them We Said “Hey”
Now that we’ve gotten past our 15 minutes of fame (or was it infamy?) brought on by being slanderously maligned in The New Yorker, it’s time to get back to the business of “reveling in the New South and wrasslin’ with the Old.” And what better way to do that than a new Twanglish Lesson?
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Our Hidden History: A Response to The New Yorker
RSM founder Wayne Franklin responds to the portrayal of this site in a recent column by George Packer of the New Yorker.
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Echoes of Shiloh: Historic School Decays in Cattle Pasture
I stumbled upon this haunting echo of the Old South while driving the back roads near Starr, S.C.
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God. Family. Football. A Twanglish Lesson
People from other regions see our devotion to football in this part of the country as misplaced, or even delusional. They’re wrong.
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April 1, 2013 





