Southerners Smile More Than Other Americans.

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 Confederate Past. It's Something That's Open To Both Races, A Variety Of Ethnic Groups And People Who Move Here.

Southerners Smile More Than Other Americans.

Barbecue Is The Third Rail Of North Carolina Politics.

Every Time I Look At Atlanta I See What A Quarter Of A Million Confederate Soldiers Died To Prevent.

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.