Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.
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When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
There's no such thing as being too Southern.
Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too.
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.
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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