Every Time I Look At Atlanta I

You Ask People What Their Ethnicity Is, And A Lot Of Scots-irish People Either Don't Know Or If They Know It They Just Don't Acknowledge It. It's Not Something They Really Identify With. They're Just Plain Old Americans, Plain Vanilla. I Don't Think They Are A Self-conscious Voting Bloc.

We Could Say That People Who Eat Grits, Listen To Country Music, Follow Stock-car Racing, Support Corporal Punishment In The Schools, Hunt 'possum, Go To Baptist Churches And Prefer Bourbon To Scotch Are Likely To Be Southerners.

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.

I Think There's A Suspicion In The South Of People Putting On Airs. You See It In Most Successful Southern Politicians, But You Also See It In Someone Like Richard Petty, Who May Be A Multimillionaire Stock Car Driver, But He's Also Beloved Because He Has A Nice Self-deprecatory Way About Him.

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