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Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm; unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say the northerners); who for all their poverty and squalor lead enviable lives -- envied, that is, by work-driven, sensually inhibted, less corruptly governed northerners. We are superior to them, say the northerners, clearly superior. We do not shirk our duties or tell lies as a matter of course, we work hard, we are punctual, we keep reliable accounts. But they have more fun than we do ... They caution[ed] themselves as people do who know they are part of a superior culture: we mustn't let ourselves go, mustn't descend to the level of the ... jungle, street, bush, bog, hills, outback (take your pick). For if you start dancing on tables, fanning yourself, feeling sleepy when you pick up a book, developing a sense of rhythm, making love whenever you feel like it -- then you know. The south has got you.


Susan Sontag


#culture #north #north-and-south #northerners #perceptions

Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.


Paula Deen


#around #been #kind #never #other

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.


Ethel Waters


#between #blacks #browns #decided #difference

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


#badly #critical #environment #especially #had

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

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






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