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The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains,…

— Clyde Edgerton

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be…

— Lena Headey

Where I grew up in the North-east, the community there, and the way people relate to one another, goes very deep. But I don't…

— Gina McKee

I'm from the north. You can take the boy out of the north but you can't take the north out of the boy.

— John McDonnell

I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I…

— Ian Mckellen

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

— John Shelton Reed

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

— Walton Goggins

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

— Reynolds Price

Individuals in the South are just like individuals any place else.

— Danny K. Davis

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than…

— John Shelton Reed