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Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt... →
I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.
Southerners smile more than other Americans.
Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's... →
The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them... →
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the... →
The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it. it just might split at the seams. It... →
Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.
Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
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?
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... →
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... →
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