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John Shelton Reed

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

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Southern

As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.

Long

South

Tourists

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

Barbecue

North Carolina

Thirds

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

Believe

Hero

Poor

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people’s music.

Country

Middle

People

Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie – in Alabama – Dixie is slipping. They’ve stopped using the word in commercial listings.

Alabama

Dixie

Heart

Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

Barbecue

Hundred

Miles

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.

Country

Smart

Thinking

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

Atlanta

Soldier

Southern

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.

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People

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Quotes by John Shelton Reed

John Shelton Reed

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people’s music.

Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie – in Alabama – Dixie is slipping. They’ve stopped using the word in commercial listings.

Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

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.

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

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