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Southerner Quotes by John Shelton Reed
- Southerners smile more than other Americans.
- Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
More Southerner Quotes
- Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. — Stephen Ambrose
- What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners… — Septima Poinsette Clark
- Southerners can never resist a losing cause. — Margaret Mitchell
- Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the… — Unknown Author
- Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north… — Ann Coulter
- I know climate change is a hoax – of course – but places that have never seen this type of winter weather… — Bill Maher
- 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
- History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner… — Leon Trotsky
- Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the… — Clyde Edgerton
- Southerners smile more than other Americans. — John Shelton Reed
- Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you. — John Shelton Reed
- 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