There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South.
You know, I love the South.
The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.
Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.
There's no such thing as being too Southern.
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.