I Was A Yankee Liberal It Took Moving To Arkansas For Me To Understand My Biases

I was a Yankee liberal. It took moving to Arkansas for me to understand my biases.

I come from Minneapolis, and before that I lived in Seattle and Boston — three of the bluest, most left-leaning cities in the United States. I was an urban woman and couldn’t imagine living anywhere ... read more

Educating For A Yankee Doodle Yugoslavia

You know the old joke that a liberal is someone who is too broad-minded to take his own side in an argument ... who grew up in Louisiana poverty, as she did. My mom finds the book very moving, and was ... read more

A 'New Mind' For A Region: What It Means To Be A 'Southerner'

Our guest today has spent four years trying to figure out what it means to be a Southerner in the ... I think that most of my life I've been kind of confused about what I meant when I said I was a ... read more

Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War

Cities are littered with Confederate monuments, which this Yankee first took for ... landing me in the tiny town of Odum, Georgia, where I would speak with Dewey Barber himself, founder and CEO of ... read more

From Vietnam to Blue Angels, retired Navy admiral Jimmie Taylor at home in sky

After high school, Taylor went to the University of Tennessee, where he tried his hand at engineering, business and liberal arts. But none of them suited him. He headed back to Murfreesboro and ... read more

There are certain realities in being an upright mammal over 50. Let me tell you a few.

which puts on Bikes, Blues and BBQ, a mammoth motorcycle rally and festival. [I was a Yankee liberal. It took moving to Arkansas for me to understand my biases.] We’d been warned by everyone that ... read more