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The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses. — Florence King

... a Southerner is BORN into the lifestyle,
there just ain't no choice about it.
Yer either a Southerner or ya ain't. — Chad B. Hanson

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone. — Frances Mayes

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. — Florence King

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. — Margaret Mitchell

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers ... great talkers. — Eudora Welty

Puttin' on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn't make you country; Like puttin' on a ball gown & glass heels won't make me Cinderella. — Kellie Elmore

The proverbial hospitality of the South may be selectively extended but it is not a myth. — Sally Mann

Southerners smile more than other Americans. — John Shelton Reed

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

Counting both Northerners and Southerners, more American lives were lost in the Civil War than in any other conflict. — Richard Shenkman

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. — Gore Vidal

Because the South can be a dangerous place, especially for those who don't understand it. — Shannon Celebi

Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us. — Paula Deen

I might be from Kentucky, but I know that 'bless her heart' means 'fuck that bitch' in Southern. — Laura Kreitzer

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

The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall. — Michael Lee West

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners. — Ethel Waters

She hasn't known many Southerners. That twang and aw-shucks about him
it's sort of exotic. — Tom Rachman

We southerners worship our ancestors. — Amanda Stevens

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic ... — Dean Koontz

Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation. — Tim Heaton

No one knows how to hold a grudge like a proper Southerner. — Charles M. Blow

It may be because Southerners are very much like Frenchmen in that they must talk; and not only must they talk, but they must express their opinions. — James Weldon Johnson

But we southerners know that you can insult someone as much as you want so long as you add that "bless her heart" to the end of your comment. — Katherine Allred

The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished ... — Carson McCullers

I came from a big family ... a big family of Southerners. — Blake Lively

To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance. — Pat Conroy

Well, Southerners like to eat well. You see, it's an event when it's done right. — Stan Shaw

To living in the South: If you've never had a Porterhouse, everything tastes like baloney. — Tim Heaton

Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole. — Terry Pratchett

Nobody used the minute hand. And Southerners were suspicious of Yankees who did. — D.D. Scott

Southerners can never resist a losing cause. — Margaret Mitchell

We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free? — Ben Robertson

You know, Southerners are pretty cool. — Fred Schneider

Southerners...People partial to front porches, peaches, cool breezes, fast horses, sweet tea, bourbon, beautiful women and handsome men! — Unknown

Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for. — Reynolds Price

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings. — Harper Lee

Greens are a dish that most Southerners would walk a mile for. — Edna Lewis

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. — Linda Chavez

Christian talk, when said in a non-Christian way, scares these Southerners to death. — Adam Johnson