Well so much computer time is finally wearing on me, and I am giving in to the man. In anticipation of major travels in the somewhat near future I am going to start throwing some stuff up here...
And it would only seem fit to start with a very telling article from Jason Edgar in the WSJ: A Transplanted Southerner
And it would only seem fit to start with a very telling article from Jason Edgar in the WSJ: A Transplanted Southerner
- For Lee:
"I think both my parents were afraid that college was going to change me into someone they couldn't quite recognize, and to an extent that was true. I'm not sure they understood that I would have to live up North to appreciate growing up in the South...People would always say to me, 'Boy, it must have been a culture shock for you to go to Harvard.' I tell them, 'No, it wasn't quite as good as I expected.'"
- Eternal Question:
"Introducing the members of a panel on the subject of humor writing, Mr. Lopate described Mr. Blount as "the world's most sophisticated redneck." "I didn't quite know how to respond to that," Mr. Blount told the Birmingham audience that night. "I only know of two definitions for redneck, one a disparaging term for someone from the white rural laboring class or -- and I'm quoting my dictionary from memory -- someone with a provincial, often bigoted sociopolitical attitude."
- Yankees don't eat Chick-Fil-A:
"Race relations in the South are better than they used to be," he told his Birmingham audience, "which you could say makes them less Southern. But I think people are also generally friendlier, more personal, in the South than in the North. . . Anyway, people have been talking about the South getting less Southern for as long as I remember, and no doubt some people are right. But in the past couple of weeks I've been in both Massachusetts and Alabama, and I didn't have any trouble telling which was which."
