Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?
John Shelton ReedI don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.
John Shelton ReedYou 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 ReedEvery time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.
John Shelton Reed