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.
John Shelton Reed Quotes
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors.
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| Birth: | 1942 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Sociologist |
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John Shelton Reed was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is an American sociologist. He was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964 and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1971. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1969 until his retirement in 2000, as William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of sociology and director of the Howard Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. He served as president of the Southern Sociological Society in 1988 to 1989. He was elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 2000. He has written several books include: Southerners: The Social Psychology of Sectionalism, Whistling Dixie, Surveying the South: Studies in Regional Sociology, Glorious Battle, 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the South (with Dale Volberg Reed), Holy Smoke (with Dale Volberg Reed), Dixie Bohemia, and Barbecue.
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