"Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are……" — 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 is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings."
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John Shelton Reed
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26 Quotes by John Shelton Reed
John Shelton Reed has 26 quotes on this site.
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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…
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You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know…
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Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles…
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Southerners smile more than other Americans.
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Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you.
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Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion,…
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Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.
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Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal,…
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As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.
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Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
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I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San…
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More Alabama Quotes
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As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence…
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I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you…
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I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were…
— Bear Bryant
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Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then…
— Jason Aldean
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The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running,…
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My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
— Fred Allen
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As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern…
— John Henrik Clarke
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first…
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
— Richard Dawkins
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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.
— Unknown Author
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It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief…
— Joseph Lowery
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