The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South gives you the facts behind scores of revelations like these:
The first of the 13 colonies to formally legalize slavery? (Hint: it's not in the South)
How Georgia banned slaves -- and lawyers -- in its founding charter
Throw away those history textbooks: How the South started -- and won -- the American Revolution
How Southerners led the way in drafting the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights
Why Northerners -- not Southerners -- wanted slaves to be counted as property instead of people in the Constitution
Peculiar fact about the wealthy slaveholder whose court cases helped legalize slavery in Virginia: he was black
How Virginia militiamen created the American Midwest
Why Northern states threatened secession long before the Confederacy -- and why they considered it Constitutional
How Southerners outnumbered Northerners almost four to one among the heroes of the Alamo
Why slavery, which spread across all thirteen colonies, was far crueler in the North than the South
How the Northern colonies grew rich on slave trading -- and revived slavery in the South just before it collapsed
New York City's largest industry in 1860? The outfitting of slave ships
Why economics -- not slavery -- was the driving force behind the War Between the States
How Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation left more than 800,000 slaves in bondage in states aligned with or occupied by the Union
How the more civilized Southern way of war contributed to its defeat -- in contrast to the North's brutal "total war" against civilians and property
How the Northern victory dealt a death blow to states' rights -- leading eventually to today's all-powerful federal government
Why "Reconstruction" is the most misnamed period in American history
Why segregation, which didn't exist in the antebellum South, was a legacy of Northern-imposed "Reconstruction"
How virtually all of America's highest-ranking World War II generals had Confederate roots
How the South was making movies when Hollywood was nowhere
Why race relations in today's South are much better than in the North -- or anywhere else in America
What Yankee reporters don't understand about the South
Why faith and family come first in the South
Why the South is naturally conservative (and the North is naturally liberal)
Why limited government and low tax rates are a Southern tradition
Statistics show Southerners are happier than people in other regions -- Clint Johnson shows you why
Why blacks have been moving back to the South in droves
How American jazz, blues, and rock 'n' roll (when it was still music) all came from the South
Why blacks hold more - and more powerful -- political offices in the South than in the North
Why Southern industry is booming, while the North's is going bust
The second war against the South -- the campaign to erase memory and history -- and how it serves liberal interests
Why Southerners are overrepresented in the military - and no, it's not poverty
The best American literature? Southern, of course -- and our high school and college reading lists confirm it
10 Things Southerners Don't Understand About the North (#1: Why isn't Ted Kennedy in prison?)
