This is actually a really good point and a glaring oversight on my part, I'll have to edit that part of the post. [Update: I've changed the last paragraph of t

This is actually a really good point and a glaring oversight on my part, I'll have to edit that part of the post. [Update: I've changed the last paragraph of the article to reference your comment and this solution] I think the solution is to create a version of loaddata that knows how to work with South's frozen ORM. A quick search turned this up: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5472925/django-loading-data-from-fixture-after-backward-migration-loaddata-is-using-mo/5906258#5906258 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5472925/django-loading-da...