We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music. — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners,… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South. — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity. — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it. it just… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God.… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes. — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
