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Welcome to The Southerner. If you're lookin' for rebel flags, this ain't the place.

You've made it to the Southern Compendium, a links resource to the American South. Categories run in the left column. Due to the time consuming and sometimes unreliable nature of trying to find things on the Web using search engines, we hope you will bookmark this page and come back often to find just about anything in the South that happens to be on the World Wide Web. Let us do a lot of the searching for you. Suggest a new category or a new link, fix an existing link, report a dead link, or update a link by submitting an e-mail to mail@southerner.net.

Wilson
Once upon a dream, we tried providing the New South with an online magazine, but a lack of capital left us in the same situation as Lee after Gettysburg. The Southerner was a progressive, general-interest magazine online featuring news and entertainment from the American South. In that great Southern tradition, we leave you with the vestiges of that enterprise in the morgue in case it decides to rise again. Though we appreciate the interest, The Southerner is not taking queries.

Seein' how people refuse to take regional flavor seriously, Glynn Wilson's got a new gig: Locust Fork Publishing. As you can tell from the following, Wilson's beyond the South.

Sitron

"It is now our contention that the South as a regional entity is no longer a viable construct or matrix for viewing art, literature, journalism, or thought. Forget Red State/Blue state divisions, it's really urban verses exurban, and what's left of the rural countryside, largely empty and unreachable as a market for words, ideas or currency."

Ya might be askin' yourself, "Self, just what will I find at this 'Southerner' site if everything seems to be gone?" And then you might realize dead stuff makes great fertilizer. So along with remains, you'll find some homespun observances from those who dare to dream, who do not want to be deprived of the splendid and profound interpretations of life, and who resist sober, simple methods and results; i.e. check out Freelance Associates South, Chimney Rock and Tattau's Gallery.

Tattau
... or someone like him
You'll find blood, sweat and tears dripping from the keyboard and landing in a browser half a world away. You'll find what's left of those who tried to extinguish reality rather than blend into the background ... for to be honest, who knows what's real? You've got your ideas, here's some of ours.

Maybe this excites you so much that you plan to come back often. That's great, but you're more likely to get good use from our compendium of links than from our personal deviations. As we seldom have time to adequately update this montage for anything other than personal satisfaction, those lookin' for daily soliloquys probably need to look somewhere else.

Southerner Exposure

Read the obituary for Editor-in-Chief Glynn Wilson's thoughts on The Southerner's passing. Not to toot our horn, but we weren't the only ones thinking something special was happening in Dixie:

Anything Southern featured the site as its site of the week in November 2000.

The Baltimore City Paper featured the site in its zine on July 12, 2000.

Knoxville's alternative weekly Metropulse featured The Southerner in a Gamut Feature in 2000, an Eye on the Scene piece and a City Beat feature in 1999.

The Chronicle of Higher Education cited a piece in its fall 1999 issue: "A GLANCE at the fall issue of The Southerner: Southern belles tackle football (11/22/99)."

The Utne Reader also picked up "The Politics of Pigskin" that year in it's Daily Web Watch: Politics of Pigskin, as well as the Migrating Monarch's story from Secret Vistas.

The University of Tennessee's Daily Beacon focused on our links to UT.

Content Exchange writer Steve Outing focused on the volatility of the business end of The Southerner.

But if you just want an interesting place to hang around and think deep thoughts for no one's enjoyment but your own, feel free to come back as often as the mouse guides you here. Questions, comments, observations, complaints and reports of dead links welcomed at mail@southerner.net.