#southern

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

#around #barrel #father #gave #grew

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#colleges #open #southern #state #students

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#born #georgia #having #king #reared

I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#also #around #artist #band #bands

We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#accents #apartment #big #books #had

The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars. ↗

— John H. Reagan

#five #millions #millions of dollars #near #now

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