The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?
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John Shelton Reed
These are some quotes by No-nationality author John Shelton Reed Sociologist, who was born in 1942.
Quotes by John Shelton Reed
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.
John Shelton Reed
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.
