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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


#around #barrel #father #gave #grew

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.


Margaret Mitchell


#losing #never #resist #southerners

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


#among #being #best #contemporaries #days

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


Reynolds Price


#amount #being #fair #i #i think

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


John Shelton Reed


#ethnic #ethnic groups #group #groups #identity

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






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