"You ask people what their ethnicity is, and……" — John Shelton Reed
"You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc."
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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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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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