Q: What is the South?
A: A place democrats go to loose elections.
It's Southeriffic!
I get tired of outsiders automatically assuming all the white southerners are dumb, redneck racists. I remember when Ray Lewis was charged with murder in Atlanta all I saw on the news were people "worried" that Ray wouldn't get a "fair" trial (even though the sheriff and DA are both black) since he was in the South. I don't know if he got a fair trial, but someone got away with murder.
Nice quidnunc, thanks from a Southerner.
Ya'll come back na, ya hear!
Another gem from Paul Greenberg. Nothing I could add would be worthy.
What is the South?
My Grandma's
My Mothers home Cooking
My Wife's family deep in Kentucky
A Southern Belle Cousin who's half crazy !
I've lived in the South for 26 years and I couldn't begin to explain it to someone who has never been here.
Excellent...reminds me of Dr. Holditch, the professor I had for my Faulkner seminar...his grandfather had served with Faulkner's grandfather, I believe (and would have been truly jealous if he had known my family was related to Faulker, something I didn't know at the time!)
Some of the best, most erudite, or just plain good, or both together writing in this country is Southern...there is something about the water, the soil, the experience, or perhaps the heat, that brings forth people one after the other like Faulkner and Williams and O'Connor and all the rest. I personally think it's the blood red soil and the light that is brighter than anywhere else, and learning to live with human frailty and failure between the blue sky and the good earth, baked by the long hot summer of life...
I'm dropping the guy in the white suit and re-setting in into dramatic cadence just so I can read it every once in a while.
Thanks.
If you have to keep a lookout for fire ant hills, you know you are down South. If you are walking down the road and everybody stops to offer you a lift, you know you are down South. If everybody is sitting out on the porch with a pitcher of iced tea, you know you are down South. (And no matter how much you try up North, you just cannot make iced tea that tastes the same as down South.)
If the restaurant you are at offers grits as a menu option, you know you are down South. Ditto if biscuits and gravy are on the menu for breakfast.
If you see huge billboards on the highways advertising FIREWORKS FOR SALE, you know you are down South.
If NASCAR trumps major league baseball on the sports pages, you know you are reading a paper from down South.
Those are just a few trivial observations...I could go on for many more pages. BTW, I visit the South every year and like it down there much better than here up North, where the people are usually rude and obnoxious.
Dixie Ping, Sir...;-)
Southern ping
The "South" is anything not north of Rhode Island!
Nice article.
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The Last American Hero is Junior Johnson
He was writing about the greatest stock-car driver in history, but the historical context in which he frames this essay is what truly makes it a classic.