As Long As There Are Japanese Tourists,

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

Dixie Has Just Fallen To Pieces. There Are Little Patches Of Dixie. But Even In The Heart Of Dixie - In Alabama - Dixie Is Slipping. They've Stopped Using The Word In Commercial Listings.

There's An Ethic That Says: 'you Don't Run Off To The Church For The Sacraments Of Salvation, You Establish A Personal Relationship With God. You Don't Run Off To The Courts For Justice, You Settle It Yourself. You Don't Run Off To Labor Unions To Sort Out Your Work Relations, You Can Take This Job And Shove It If You Don't Like What You're Doing.

Every Time I Look At Atlanta I See What A Quarter Of A Million Confederate Soldiers Died To Prevent.