Ends Quote by John Shelton Reed

Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

— John Shelton Reed

As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.

— John Shelton Reed

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or…

— 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…

— John Shelton Reed

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

— John Shelton Reed

The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it. it just…

— John Shelton Reed

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner…

— John Shelton Reed

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's…

— 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…

— John Shelton Reed

There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God.…

— John Shelton Reed

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

— John Shelton Reed

Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie…

— John Shelton Reed