As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South. John Shelton Reed Read Quote
I don’t think massification and globalization and all those other ‘izations’ are necessarily hostile to regionalism. John Shelton Reed Read Quote
The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? John Shelton Reed Read Quote
I do believe states’ rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while – like, 150 years or so. I’m professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. John Shelton Reed Read Quote
I think there’s a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he’s also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him. John Shelton Reed Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity. John Shelton Reed Read Quote
