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Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession

ha ha but unironically (the opening paragraphs of this book are a chilling and all-too-credible prophecy)

Levees prevent silt from the Mississippi from spreading across the delta. Instead, it all just gets dumped off a cliff into the gulf. Or something like that. This page seems to sum it up pretty well.

Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast is a beautifully depressing book and at 15 years old, likely contains dated optimism. Still worth a read.

>The county’s most famous contemporary resident – 47-year-old Republican state senator Chris McDaniel – lives in Ellisville. He is mounting a second bid for the US Senate and his signature issue is a promise to preserve the Mississippi state flag, which bears in its upper lefthand corner the Confederate battle flag. McDaniel took up the cause in 2015, when several high-profile Republicans called for change after a neo-Confederate shot dead nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina.

>A politician climbing to power on the rickety rungs of the Lost Cause is nothing new for Jones county: Laurel was the home of Carroll Gartin, an unyielding white supremacist who, as the state’s lieutenant governor, fought to preserve racial segregation until the day he died of a heart attack in 1966.

Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession

Awesome, a fellow Southern(ish)er. This one covers Kentucky and is budget friendly:

Mushrooms of the Southeast (A Timber Press Field Guide) https://www.amazon.com/dp/160469730X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_DZMPBbPTFWDWP

I think that supplemented with Mushrooms Demystified for advanced keying will have you covered.

Absolutely! Mushroom identification is a complex and evolving discipline that I have found so much joy in :)

If you want to dive deeper, you can get a field guide for “Mushrooms of Southeast USA” or similar. It will be a very helpful tool in narrowing down anything you find, like this:

Mushrooms of the Southeast

Or this:

Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States

Cheers!

I’m from the Northwest so I’m not sure about the books on Southeast region personally but this one seems well reviewed on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Mushrooms-Southeast-Timber-Press-Field/dp/160469730X/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=3EFF191YRI4OZ&keywords=southeast+us+mushroom&qid=1654811177&sprefix=sougheast+us+mushroom%2Caps%2C145&sr=8-2

Not a pocket guide, but this book is great for the Southeast: https://www.amazon.com/Southeast-Foraging-Flavorful-Angelica-Regional/dp/1604694998

IMO it's a good idea to learn to identify all plants and their uses though, I spend lots of time just walking through the woods taking photos of plants I don't recognize and using the iNaturalist app to try to identify them.

Mushrooms of the Southeast would be a good book, I just got the one for the Northeast from Timber Press and it is very nice.

If you have a few extra bucks hanging around, you should definitely buy some mushroom guides for your region. Familiarizing yourself with those, as well as continuing to watch the subs, will help you a lot with understanding what to look for in identifying mushrooms. If you can get more than one guide, I'd recommend Mushrooms of the Southeast in addition to one or more region guides for the northeast (just the latter if you can only afford one, since Pennsylvania's more toward the northeast).

I love how I gave you FACTS and you responded with an OPINION piece!!!

"The Hill" is not a verified news source. Red states are welfare queens and we will all be better off without you.

https://www.amazon.com/Better-Off-Without-Manifesto-Secession/dp/145161666X

I can't speak personally, but there are books specific to the Southeast that have 5 stars on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Mushrooms-Southeast-Timber-Press-Field/dp/160469730X https://www.amazon.com/Mushrooms-Carolinas-Southern-Gateways-Guides/dp/1469638533/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3/141-0260369-0980741?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1469638533&pd_rd_r=e9b651c2-4f7c-42b8-bb4a-5cf19d32a575&pd_rd_w=nH4G7&pd_rd_wg=7Eece&...

I live in Maryland and this book has been my Bible. I live how it also has a section organized by season: https://www.amazon.com/Southeast-Foraging-Flavorful-Angelica-Regional/dp/1604694998/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Southeast+foraging&qid=1601078088&sr=8-3

Just start out with easily identifiable things, and slowly add one or two new plants whenever you're comfortable with what you have learned so far. Start with plants that have no poisonous look alikes (blackberries, dandelion, blueberries, June berries, autumn olives, raspberries, etc) and work your way up.

Have you checked out the "60 Hikes In 60 Miles" book series? They have a Houston edition. You can get it from Amazon, but I think they probably sell it at REI and Whole Earth Provision Co.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0897329317/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_SWx1Eb9RYFCCW

Side note: if you live in Houston and haven't been to Whole Earth Provision Co., I would definitely recommend going there just in general (I worked there a few years ago). There will probably be some people working there that will be happy to talk to you about trails and parks.

Theres another book coming out next january thats $20 Here might be worth looking into

We don't need you. We don't want you. We are tired of having to slow progress to a crawl for the "heritage not hate" nutballs. If you aren't one of them, fine. Great, even. You're welcome to come join the sane people in the other parts of the country. But the south can fuck right the fuck off as far as I'm concerned.

The south is full of willfully ignorant buffoons who consistently vote against their own best interests and the best interests of the rest of the nation. And then we're forced to bail you out of the fiscal consequences of your bad decisions.

Pls go, The South.

Better Off Without 'Em

To be fair the rest of the country has been trying to get them to modernize for over a century. But they thwarted attempts to improve education, even scorning the dreaded "book learning". They refused to participate in the industrial revolution. Used armed force to prevent modernization.

They are now alien. Separate them from the United States and look at them statistically and they look more like some 3rd world African nation than they do Europe.

Good look at North/South stats. https://www.amazon.com/Better-Off-Without-Manifesto-Secession/dp/145161666X

lol, I don't think the author ever went to Wisconsin. He focused on the States that fought in the War Between the States -- as the people interviewed in his book would call the Civil War ... They disagreed that it was inherently a symbol of slavery and racism -- that seems a distinctly Northern way of viewing it. Rather, they see it as a symbol of states rights and state sovereignty: The states had the right to secede; they lost the war and Lincoln tyrannically changed the balance of power declaring states did not have the right to leave the union. That's their understanding. They also see the flag as a means to honor their dead relatives who are otherwise being wrongly denigrated as racist: During the war, people fought out of loyalty to their state in addition to other reasons. Families even fought against each other for this reason, if they lived on opposite sides of a state border, which boggles my mind.

lol, ~~you've made work for me, because now I have to dig through my files to find the book~~* ... I will say that I would never have read it if it weren't for university, but it wasn't a bad read -- it was vaguely interesting.

Oh, and lest I depict the journalist as if he were a racist apologist: He did describe some flagrantly racist and offensive people he encountered, which appalled him, so yeah, there's racism behind it sometimes too, as headline news today obviously demonstrates ...

*Edit: Wow! I searched Amazon.com and it was one of the top results! You can even buy a copy for pennies, plus shipping...

Here ya go

Also, the first rule of mushroom hunting is that you don't share your spots with other people.

This was written by a local guy, it's a pretty good sort of basic field guide.

http://www.amazon.com/Southeast-Foraging-Flavorful-Edibles-Angelica/dp/1604694998/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443802050&sr=1-1&keywords=southeast+foraging&refinements=p_n_feature_browse-bin%3A2656022011

I do agree that government can kill off minorities, such as my cajun heritage has been stunted by the Compulsory Education Act which did not recgonize cajun french as a language and beating children who spoke it. Government is a powerful thing and can hurt as many as it helps. While I get this could be seen as not precisely the same, but it does show that there is a darker side to the government telling everyone what to do. I see now that my views are a bit too odd for people on this thread, and thats fine. I just am not swayed by this thought process

Manhunt is one of the best historical non-fiction books I've read. It's a history of the hunt for John Wilkes Booth following Lincoln's assassination. It's really well written and intense throughout.

https://www.amazon.com/Manhunt-12-Day-Chase-Lincolns-Killer/dp/0060518499

I think I read in Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer but I don't have the book anymore and can't find the quote, Lincoln expounds on how assassination is not an "American" quality. It's always interesting to consider when discussing his assassination and lack of guards.