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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?

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

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

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

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 boundaries enclose?

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

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.

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