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We're just Southern people.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

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.

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.

In the South, everyone speaks, if you know each other or not. I'm raising my daughter more Southern, like how her father and I were raised.

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.

I like being Southern; I like going to Cracker Barrel - I mean, that's just how I am.

I'm Southern to the bone.

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

There's something about Southern characters.

I think there is such a richness to the South and a lushness and a way of life.

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.

I bring a lot of 'y'all' up to New York with me.

I am southern - from the great state of South Carolina. They say, 'You can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.' And it's true.

I'm too Southern.

I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid. I guess I never stayed in one place long enough to pick up the accent, but I definitely identify as a Southerner.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.