[The South's] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a social system that had never existed...except in the fertile imaginati...
As a child, I ate up the image Carl strived to portray: An inspirational rags-to-riches tale of a go-getter emerging the hell of his sulfur-scented, Podunk Texas upbringing. With a community college d...
Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.
Charlestonians had a particularly vicious and cunning game, developed after the War. They treated outsiders with so much graciousness and consideration that their politeness became a weapon. 'Visitors...
I am consoled only to see that I was not mistaken: Chicago is just as I remembered it. I was here twenty five years ago. My father brought me and Scott up to see the Century of Progress and once later...
Okay, let’s pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner. That doesn’t work in the South. A male friend cannot have dinner with a female friend if the male friend has a wife. It just doesn’t...
While the post-Civil War southerners were pushing as fast as they could into the New South, were grasping Yankee dollars with enthusiasm, they purified their motives in the well of Lost Causism. Polit...
But there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could not, for the moment, tell. Perhaps it was that there was nothing she would not do, and there were so m...
The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.
Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, go in, as if it were some stray relative in search of lodging.
There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.