Accents Quote by John Shelton Reed

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

— John Shelton Reed

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

— Reynolds Price

People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true.…

— Jesmyn Ward

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…

— John Shelton Reed

You've got the whole civil rights movements emanating from the south, you've got the music that came out of the south that is the…

— Debra Winger

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

Growing up Southern is a privilege, really. It's more than where you're born, it's an idea and state of mind that seems imparted at…

— Lana

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

“Southern culture is vivified, made a culture, by the melding of influences that are held far more closely than in other, lesser parts of…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“Being Southern isn't talking with an accent...or rocking on a porch while drinking sweet tea, or knowing how to tell a good story. It's…

— Jan Norris

I definitely feel like people in the South are a little more raw. Our whole swag, the way we talk... When I go to…

— Megan Thee Stallion