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We Southerners are complicit in defining our region by what is peculiar about it.

Phil Morrison

It's not just the way the Bush administration responded to Katrina, but events afterwards. There's too much history.... The center of gravity of the Republican Party is white Southerners, the group African-Americans trust the least.

David Bositis

Did he have his eye turned toward history? Perhaps, ... Perhaps he did not want to continue to be either the only or one of a handful of poster boys for unreconstructed Southerners. Maybe he didn't want to have that as his legacy.

Charles Bullock

Southerners focus on the social hot-button issues, like abortion and gay marriage. But Indiana, like Iowa or Wisconsin or Ohio, is more interested in the traditional Republican issues - balancing the budget, integrity in government. It's a much more humble kind of state.

Billy Linville

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

Reynolds Price