"I can see why many Southerners, black ones……" — John Shelton Reed
"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 same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors."
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John Shelton Reed
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26 Quotes by John Shelton Reed
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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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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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