Bills Quote by John Shelton Reed

Bill Clinton is a classic, old-school Southern pragmatic Democrat.

— Monica Crowley

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

— Reynolds Price

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

— Fred Schneider

I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start…

— Molly Ivins

I'm from South Carolina, so I know what it's like to be accused of being a conservative from the South. And I know that…

— Lindsey Graham

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

— Dean Koontz

We're just Southern people.

— Ronnie Van Zant

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things…

— Genevieve Gorder

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

— Lewis Grizzard

Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted…

— Carson McCullers

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's…

— Natalie Zea

The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.

— Florence King