Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you. — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
I just want you to know that as a southerner, who actually saw discrimination and have no doubt it existed in a… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New… — Florence King Copy Share Image
... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not… — Natalie Zea Copy Share Image
Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We don’t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture… — Allison Glock Copy Share Image
While I felt very much a Southerner as a child, being Jewish gave me an outsider's perspective. People look at region in… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place.… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
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