Word: partisans
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...president; of that there can be little doubt. In a recent survey released by ABC News on his 100th day in office, he received a 63 percent job approval rating. After a bitter and divisive election, many have argued that Bush is succeeding in his mission to reach across partisan divides and create a united, consensus-based government. Unfortunately, this view is even more flawed than the 43rd president’s grammar...
...Southern Heritage Association, asking, "Is the war over? Perhaps, but the cause lives on." Another ad, for a book about Lincoln, began, "If you think Bill Clinton has a character problem, take a look at...Lincoln." But rather than judge it from afar, I decide to drop by Southern Partisan, based in downtown Columbia, to find out who these people...
Chris Sullivan, the current editor, had faxed me a 10-point response to national press accounts calling Southern Partisan racist, segregationist and secessionist. So I expected to find a considerable operation, one equal to the wrath against it. But at an unremarkable strip mall, I entered an office that contained the entire paid staff: Sullivan and one assistant. The quarterly magazine has 8,000 subscribers and generally runs between 50 and 60 pages. Sullivan uses free-lance writers--columnists and essayists, mostly--who are paid between $200 and $500 per article. "We're not in the news because...
...soft-spoken single guy who drives a pickup truck with a gun rack, Sullivan comes from a family of Greenville jewelers. A nonvet and nonjournalist, he got his start at Southern Partisan by writing about the Sons of Confederate Veterans as a member and officer. Sullivan is Christian, antiabortion and a supporter of small, decentralized government. His magazine is all those things and also a passionate defender of the Confederate flag. Sullivan says it's fair to call the publication right-wing with a Southern twist. But not racist...
...political thought for 200 years. In the spirit of states' rights and sovereignty, the South doesn't want the North telling it what to do. That's what the war was about, he says, that's what the flag represents, and that's why, in every issue of Southern Partisan, there's a "Confederate States of America Today" news roundup. In one issue, Missouri gets a dart because a hotel tried to have rebel flags removed during a Sons of Confederate Veterans shindig. And Trent Lott gets a nudge to enact a strong, committed, antigay agenda...