All John Shelton Reed Quotes
- 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 might… Bit
- You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge… Acknowledge
- Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes. Barbecue
- Southerners smile more than other Americans. American
- Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you. Angry
- Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record. Any
- Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent. Atlanta
- 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,… Bill
- As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South. Inspirational
- Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music. Aged
- I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism. All
- The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? Changing
- 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 boundaries… Assurance
- But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says… Believe
- Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is… Alabama
- I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same,… Ancestor
- I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so.… Believe
- I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see… Air
- I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they… All
- If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches… Any