Sam Fulwood III: Secession isn’t the answer

  I am a Southerner and proud of it. I’m also a black American and proud of it, too. Is there an inherent contradiction? Not one that I can see.

  A provocative column by AlterNet editor and senior writer Joshua Holland seems to hint otherwise. Holland interviews Chuck Thompson, a travel writer and the author of Better Off Without ‘Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, a book of dubious merit based on his tour of the American South and his conversations with the folks who live there. Thompson’s thesis: Northern and Southern Americans can’t live with each other so the nation should consider a regional divorce.