Sean Hannity Quotes

The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.

I'm proud to be next to the Confederate flag. That flag is not - it is not about racism folks. It's not about hatred. It's not about slavery. It's about our heritage.

My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.

I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

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 addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

It will have to be a universal movement, and that will never be... because the big-league game, as it is now, is overrun with Southern blood. These fellows would have to stop at the same hotels, eat in the same dining rooms, and sleep in the same train compartments with the colored players. There'd be trouble for sure.

The South is the only part of the country that has been defeated; the rest of the country, unlike most people in the world have never been conquered. But the Southerners have …. The South is the soul of America.

Every Southern man sustains me. The fragments of the stick are begged for as sacred relicts. .

The South does not need defense, but exposition.

Being a son of the South puts you in a different position when it comes to the Confederate flag. It means something entirely different to the people who have ancestors who fought in the Civil War on the south side of the Mason-Dixon line.

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'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

I think it's impossible to be a young black male from the South, born to an era I was born in, and not have a clear sense of what race really means in the country.

I do play a lot of Southerners because I grew up in the South, but they're still diverse.

Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.

I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.

The Ryman and the Grand Ole Opry, if you're a Southern boy, is just a way of life.

You have to realize that, when it comes to the South, we carry around a lot of baggage. The South lost the war, and I spent years denying my culture.

I grew up in the South, and I think there are lots of people who have distorted views of the South.

Even in the '80s and '90s, many white Southerners were still bitter about court decisions that required racial integration of the schools. It wasn't that they were outwardly opposed to white and black people attending school together, it was that the rulings threatened their proud identity as independent Southerners.

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.