Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners. — 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
Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you. — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
