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Nobody’s Home

An online anthology of creative nonfiction works about the prevailing myths, beliefs, narratives, ideas, experiences, and assumptions that have driven Southern culture over the last fifty years, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Foster Dickson in Nobody’s Home

Feb 27

Reading Alexander P. Lamis’ “Southern Politics in the 1990s” (1999)

The 1990s were among the middle years, the decade when the two-party South of the 1970s and 1980s was giving way.

Foster Dickson in Nobody’s Home

Mar 23, 2023

Reading Chandler Davidson’s “Biracial Politics” (1972)

Houston, Texas is arguably a Southern city, and Chandler Davidson’s 1972 book “Biracial Politics” treats it as such.

Foster Dickson in Nobody’s Home

Jun 15, 2021

Morality Without God and Politics With Her

Republished from “Nobody’s Home,” an essay by Robert C. Stewart

In the South, politics and religion, specifically Protestant Christianity, are inextricably tied together. Though the…

Foster Dickson in Nobody’s Home

Feb 23, 2021

Reading Alexander Lamis’ “The Two-Party South”

I’ve written previously about how the whole red-state/blue-state paradigm gets on my nerves, and it’s in that spirit (and out of a belief in a more complex understanding) that I’m writing about Alexander P. Lamis’ 1984 book The Two-Party South…