John Shelton Reed

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#confederate #especially #flag #given #going

As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#long #market #old #south #tourists

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#carolina #north #north carolina #politics #rail

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#about #believe #elvis #elvis presley #his

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#country #country music #historically #middle-aged #music

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. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#commercial #dixie #even #fallen #heart

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#hostile #i #necessarily #other #think

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#care #define #geographical #live #lousy

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#changes #closest #closest thing #drive #europe

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#ethnic #ethnic groups #group #groups #identity