The Essential Southern Podcast
The Abbeville Institute
4.9from 322 ratings
- 401
- Episodes
- 31
- Transcribed
- 322
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About The Essential Southern Podcast
The Abbeville Institutes is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to exploring what is true and valuable in the Southern tradition.
- Publisher
- The Abbeville Institute
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 Nov 2015
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
31 of 401 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. 28: Is "Backwards" a Compliment?
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Were the Articles of Confederation a Failure?
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Were the Articles of Confederation Dissolved?
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Ep. 28: Is "Backwards" a Compliment?
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] What if Southern backwardness is a benefit in this age of progress? And he begins with a quote from E.A. Pollard. Quote, there are great defects in that character, peculiar defects of accident, but there is also the sum of many virtues. The people of the South are brave to a fault. They are generous to credulity, polite, hospitable, cherishing many noble virtues which the commercial spirit of the age has elsewhere outgrown. But they all have the peculiar faults of an untraveled people, a people who pass their lives in local neighborhoods, and who having but little knowledge of how large and various the world is, easily take conceit of their own powers So what if these things are there because the world has outgrown these things, but because the South is so local, at least it used to be? […]
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- Carey Roberts
- Marco Bassani
- Ross Lence
- Marshall DeRosa
- Don Livingston
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 1,802,784
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 270 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 52 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100
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- Quality
- 23
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 95
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