#southerner

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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Southerners can never resist a losing cause. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

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Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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

— Reynolds Price

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

— John Shelton Reed

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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

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