While I don't think he's all that as a presidential candidate, former senator Jim Webb (rumored to be running from Viriginia) wrote a stunning book about the history of the South from his perspective as a descendent of the Scots-Irish wave of immigrants to the old South who formed the backbone of the populace until the recent alien invasion. He details the economic oppression of the South by the North that contributed both to the Civil War and the occupation of the South by the North after the war.
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