"Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of……" — John Shelton Reed
"Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here."
—
John Shelton Reed
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
26 Quotes by John Shelton Reed
John Shelton Reed has 26 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes…
-
You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know…
-
Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles…
-
Southerners smile more than other Americans.
-
Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you.
-
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion,…
-
Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.
-
Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal,…
-
As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.
-
Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
-
I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.
-
The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San…
See all 26 quotes by John Shelton Reed »
More Accents Quotes
This quote is filed under Accents Quotes,
one of 415 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
-
I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it…
— Amy Adams
-
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time…
— Christian Bale
-
The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was…
— Eric Bana
-
In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a…
— Joe Biden
-
Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
— Rachel Bilson
-
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent…
— Orlando Bloom
-
If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies,…
— Emily Blunt
-
I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
— Erma Bombeck
-
I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.
— Anthony Bourdain
-
I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
— Bill Bryson
-
God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of…
— Nicolas Cage
See all 415 Accents Quotes »