#southern

On 'Justified,' we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#california #call #driving #find #justified

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#come #comfortable #dialects #easy #example

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. ↗

— Reynolds Price

#amount #being #fair #i #i think

My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#mother #southern

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

— John Shelton Reed

#ethnic #ethnic groups #group #groups #identity

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

Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#bill clinton #clinton #every #i #i think

Southerners smile more than other Americans. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#other #smile #southerners #than

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. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#because #black #completely #confederate #folks

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