A LINCOLNIAN IN HICKFACE: A POST-COLONIAL ANALYSIS In the February 2003 Liberty Magazine, Mr. Timothy Sandefur, lately a Lincoln Fellow at Claremont Institute, complains that in the wake of the Trent Lott affair, too many American political leaders are “minimizing the offensiveness of a Mississippi good ol’ boy who tells his audience that things wouldabin bettah if thar hain’t bin nunna dat dee-seg-ruh-gay-shun.”1 For my part, I am more taken with the offensiveness of the words I just put in italics. The effect is hideous — sort of Joel Chandler Harris + 90-proof anti-Southern venom! Luckily for us, post-colonial analysis … Continue reading We Are a Brand of Bubbas