Drive A Hundred Miles And The Barbecue

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.

Any Southern Nationalist Movement, Especially One That Wraps Itself In The Confederate Flag, Is Going To Be Viewed With Suspicion, Given The Historical Record.

I Don't Think Massification And Globalization And All Those Other 'izations' Are Necessarily Hostile To Regionalism.

I Do Believe States' Rights Was A Sound Doctrine That Got Hijacked By Some Unsavory Customers For A While - Like, 150 Years Or So. I'm Professionally Obliged To Believe That Knowledge Is Better Than Ignorance, But Some Kinds Of Forgetting Are Ok With Me.

As Long As There Are Japanese Tourists, There Will Be A Market For The Old South.