Twitter, Tim Scott, and “The Strange Career of Jim Crow”

Welcome to Eclectic contains long-form ruminations on the modern diverse South, education, sustainability, and social justice. Since writing my last post about post-election racism on Twitter made me want to delve even further into this subject of race in Deep Southern politics, another noteworthy development within that same subject occurred just this week when South Carolina governor Nikki Haley appointed Rep. Tim Scott to fill the US Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Jim DeMint, making Scott the first African-American senator from the South since Reconstruction. (Interestingly, you can read this… Read more Twitter, Tim Scott, and “The Strange Career of Jim Crow” →