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• The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it.…
• You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they…
• Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the…
• Southerners smile more than other Americans.
• Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you.
• Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the…
• Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.
• Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind…
• As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.
• Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
• I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.
• The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is…

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