Necessities for Southern Readers

The following constitutes a list this particular author believes necessitates a collection of literary works aspiring Southern Nationalists and Traditionalists must own.

The Constitution of the Confederate States of America

This one is a given. Generally speaking, this would allow the reader to understand the legal framework Southerners viewed the U.S. Constitution to be and made a handful of changes to the diction to make it so. It is worth noting the stronger dedication to Christianity in the Preamble in comparison to the U.S. Constitution’s Preamble.

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

This sweet little book briefly details the events which transpired to define the multiple nations of America. Beginning in the Colonial Era, the events covered skim through American history until the Obama Presidency. The primary purpose is to define how the different cultures of North America define separate distinct nations, deconstructing the idea of America being a single nation. This is fundamental in understanding the idea behind Southern Nationalism and the uniqueness of Southerners, as well as, the further breakdown of the types of Southerners.

Notes on the State of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson’s only published book, this represents a masterwork of the Virginian ideal of American society. Jefferson details his beliefs on how America should be governed and how the ideal means for a state to be governed, as well as, the ecological makeup of Virginia. Additionally, he details his thoughts on slavery and race relations. A simple paragraph does this book little justice, and it remains one of the most important books by a Southern author.

George Wallace’s Inaugural Speech and Jefferson Davis’ Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate

It is important to remember the speeches delivered by great men. Jefferson Davis’ Farewell Address to the Senate remains one of the greatest speeches ever delivered in the United States, despite its contemporary notoriety and is easily found online in PDF format. Additionally, George Wallace’s 1963 Inaugural Speech, though infamous, is a pure work of art in manipulation of the English language. Easily found on YouTube and in PDF files, this speech is a must read or listen.

Plantation Life in Texas and similar Antebellum works

The story of Antebellum Dixie faces rapidly decaying sympathies and understanding. Few alive today read the abundant history related to the topic. Numerous diaries of plantation masters and others during the time used to receive printing and circulation, but are now quite expensive and out of print. Additionally, the old literary and film genre of Southern Romanticism has long since faded. Plantation Life in Texas by Elizabeth Silverthorne is a quality work which remains fairly easy to acquire but many others are difficult to find and are fading rapidly.

A Defense of Virginia and the South and works by James Henley Thornwell

Leftists anti-Christian and faux-Christians alike often utilize attacks against a genuine believer’s own faith in order to deconstruct Southern Nationalist views. Generally speaking, the leftists hate Christianity and the fakes preach a malicious, neo-Abolitionist, Babble-esque interpretation of the Bible which abounds to nothing more than pure heresy. A Defense of Virginia and the South by Robert Lewis Dabney and works by James Henley Thornwell provide a learned Christian view of the Cause.

The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968

An obscure but easy to acquire book by Kari Frederickson, this book details the collapse of the Solid South and the final genuine Southern Nationalist movement. The States’ Rights Democratic Party, though short lived and a failure in the short term, had a profound effect on the South and carries the legacy of being the moment that finally caused Southerners to leave the Democratic Party.

You and Segregation and Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization

Two totally forgotten short books, they were written by Herman Talmadge and Theodore Bilbo respectively, both governors and later U.S. senators. While a multitude of works justified slavery and secession, very little was written in defense of Jim Crow laws. These two works may possibly be the only two left. The Jim Crow Era was arguably Dixie’s Golden Age yet remains both the most infamous period and memory holed period in its history. No other period in the South’s history faces as much derision and suppression at the behest of contemporary communist overlords as does this one.

The South During Reconstruction

Written by the superlative and greatest Southern historian, Ellis Merton Coulter, the book was an entry in the larger Dunning School historiography and one of the final books written in that perspective. Coulter does an excellent job, as is usual with his works, of giving a broad history of Reconstruction not from the legal standpoint but with a focus on Southerners themselves and their reactions to Reconstruction. This book was part of the 10 volume series called A History of the South, of which Coulter wrote two entries.

The Dunning School

Beginning around 1900, the PhD students of William Archibald Dunning contributed a number of works, in addition to his many letters, which aspired to detail the history of Reconstruction in the South from a conservative perspective which justified the South’s viewpoint. Their books and letters inspired many others who contributed to their growing library of works and had a profound impact on the recording of American history. Thus, the Dunning School of Historiography remains a much maligned part of historical recording. Lasting until the start of the Civil Rights Era, the aforementioned Coulter was one of its last contributors. Since the 1960s, the school of thought has been largely suppressed and forgotten, yet holds arguably the title of ushering America’s golden age of recorded history.