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Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy.. If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot, they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.
Florence King
Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
Margaret Mitchell
The Southerner always tended to believe with his blood rather than his intellect.
Marshall Frady
I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.
Julian Bond
I love everything about the South; I even love hate.
Brother Dave Gardner
O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! my South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
Walt Whitman
I like the South because of the people. They are loyal. Once they love a team, they're fans forever.
Dominique Wilkins
Because I was born in the South, I'm a Southerner. If I had been born in the
North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.
Clyde Edgerton
Everyone from the South knows who Jefferson Davis was, and this is one thing that distinguishes the South from other parts of the country.
William F. Buckley
The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.
Woodrow Wilson
The South may not always be right, but by God it's never wrong!
Brother Dave Gardner
I suggest that the true Southland is that territory within which, when asked by an outsider whether he is a Southerner, the reply almost invariably is "Hell yes!" This "Hell yes" line has the advantage of eliminating the ambivalent wishy-washy fringes, and leaving the unquestionably defiant, hard-core Southland.
Hamilton C. Horton, Jr.
Southerners make such good novelists; they have so many good stories because they have so much family.
Gore Vidal
I'm Southern and I know neurotic behavior.
Faye Dunaway
Southern barbeque is the closet thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines and cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbeque changes.
John Shelton Reed
My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and
unusually close working agreement with God.
Willie Morris
Anyone with a lick of sense knows that you can't make good barbeque and comply with the health code.
John Edgerton
The summer picnic gave the ladies a chance to show off their baking hands. On the barbeque pit, chickens and spareribs sputtered in their own fat and a sauce whose Recipe was guarded in the family like a scandalous affair.
Maya Angelou
Next to fried food, the South has suffered most from oratory.
Walter Hines Page
When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, it's Cajun.
Paul Prudhomme
True grits, more grits, fish, grits, and collards.
Life is good where grits are swallered.
Roy Blount, Jr.
Memphis Martini: Gin with a wad of cotton in it.
Fred Allen
What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.
Charles Kuralt
The tragedy of the redneck is that he chose the wrong enemy.
Will D. Campbell
Yes, charisma is the middle name of scads of Southern cads.
Rosemary Daniel
Southern women see no contradiction in mixing strength with gentleness.
Sharon McKern
The friend asked why the Rebel Army had continued to fight when defeat was certain. They were simply afraid to go home and face their women.
Gordon Cotton
I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.
Florence King
The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory
and the South the glory.
Richard Weaver
The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good
billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will. War suits them. They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.
General W. T. Sherman
When the smoke and fire was over, the Negroes had nothing gained, the whites had nothing left, while the jackals have all the booty.
R.H. Cain
In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.
Mark Twain
As long as the Negroes are held down by deprivation and lack of opportunity,
the other poor people will be held down alongside them.
Governor Big Jim Folsom
We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to New York and the North did the litmus test of
race and religion spout from the mouths of public officials.
Jesse Jackson
Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate
soldiers died to prevent.
John Shelton Reed
I just got wonderful news from my real estate agent in Florida. They found
land on my property.
Milton Berle
I didn't make Arkansas the butt of ridicule. God did.
H.L. Mencken
I like the South because it is so much warmer on the sidelines than it is up
North.
Coach Tom Landry
I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.
Coach Bum Phillips on losing the Senior Bowl
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The South is a region that history has happened to.
Richard Weaver
The past is not dead. It isn't even past.
William Faulkner
