Southerner Quotes

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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished..... — Carson McCullers
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,… — John Shelton Reed
I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they… — Bernard Goldberg
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. — Reynolds Price
Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for. — Reynolds Price
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… — John Shelton Reed
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,… — John Shelton Reed
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… — John Shelton Reed
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 to… — John Shelton Reed
Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as… — Tom Wicker
I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some… — Lance Bass
Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of… — Linda Chavez
Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But… — Paula Deen
Greens are a dish that most Southerners would walk a mile for. — Edna Lewis
Never trust a southerner. No, I`m kidding. They`re wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he`s an evil kind of… — Nathan Fillion
Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but… — Will Rogers
I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there. — Billy Bob Thornton
I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists.… — Paula Deen
I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was… — Jon Meacham
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have… — Jon Meacham

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