Слова-маркеры "South" и его производные

45. «Whites in the South are more conservative than whites in other parts of the country. They are more religious, they are much more likely to be evangelical, and obviously racial attitudes have something to do with it,» said Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz. «But this began long before Obama showed up, and I don't think it's going to change very much after Obama.» Voting is more racially polarized in the South than elsewhere and divided reaction to Obama's new immigration initiative might only widen that divide.

46. I had a double challenge in this situation: I was a woman in the Catholic Church, and I was a black woman leader in the South. The dynamic was interesting, because many of the lay men would do anything I asked, but the women would have more questions or create conflict around my decisions. Prior to my leadership, the parish always had been led by a priest. When I took on the role of pastoral associate, there were times when I would be in meetings and if a white male said something, it would be held as gospel truth, but if a black woman raised the same point, it would be…

47. Even in the South, where cold weather is a rarity, there are simple steps to take to prevent pipes from freezing and damaging structures when temperatures drop: # * Disconnect outside water hoses. If left connected during freezing temperatures, water in hoses will freeze and expand causing connecting faucets and pipes to freeze and break.

48. But he himself framed these measures in characteristically parochial terms as a stab at the heart of the liberal establishment. «I wanted to eliminate the last vestiges of segregation by law, and I wanted to do it in a way that treated all parts of the nation equally,» he wrote in his memoirs, first published in 1978. «I was determined that the South would not continue to be a scapegoat for Northern liberals.»

49. «Those are stills. This is a movie camera.» She didn't want him to know that his comment was like a boot in her face, so she gave him her profile and stared at the movie posters on the wall. Lately she'd begun to have thoughts of a kind she would never have suspected she could have, and she had one now. California dreaming, my eye, she thought. Dreams were for girls living in small towns in the South.

50. In 1954, Marvin Griffin was elected governor based largely on his pledge to defend southern values and segregation as a great Georgia tradition.33 In the November 11, 1954, issue of the Red and Black, an article reported that four male students from Marietta, Georgia, Jennings, Louisiana, Baltimore, Maryland, and Nashville, Tennessee, had proposed a new cap design. The article began with a call to «Wave those Confederate rat caps, freshmen? the South is rising again!» The author explained that one of the students wore a prototype of the cap during his campaign for the GOP (a student organization under the acronym for Grand Old Party) nomination for secretary-treasurer of the freshman class. The kepi (a soldier's cap) was red and black, had a hard, black, military-style visor, a red round top with a large black «G» in the middle, and class numerals in red fabric on the cap's back band.

51. I'm speaking with J.C. Watts. He's a former Republican congressman from Oklahoma. He's currently in private business. He's the founder and chair of a consulting company, J.C. Watts Companies. When he was elected in 1994, he was the first African-American from the South elected as a Republican in the Congress since the Reconstruction era.

52. But there was racism that came up during the health care debate, with the - with the vilification of John Lewis at the Capitol. And the truth is, is that - you know, this is a conversation we just don't have. I mean, I really think Eric Holder was right. We are cowardly about talking about race. I had a cross burned in my front yard, too, and I know what it was like to grow up in the Southin those years. And - and the truth is that the - that the conversation is just different among whites and among blacks. It is. And we have to be able to address that if we're ever going to get past it as a nation. If we have any opportunity to perfect this union, that's what we have to do.

53. The president would benefit by a broad circle of external advisers, and maybe some internal advisers, who have the experience, particularly in the South, the contemporary experience of the civil rights movement, that could serve as a sounding board. And I think that this president would benefit and every president would benefit by having those type of people, those experiences, in his circle of advisers.

54. I've never seen it really where people could just out and out lie, but I didn't live through the FDR or Wilson administration. I certainly didn't live through Reconstruction. I mean, reconstruction - what a colossal disappointment that was. After so much blood was lost after the Civil War and release people from bondage, those political players in the South that just wanted to make people a slave in a different way, attach a different chain, trapped people by lies, deceit and corruption. African-Americans were trapped, and had hoped that the 1960s would change things with Martin Luther King - and they did. Martin Luther King did change things. He didn't fix it. It will never be fixed. Name the perfect person - we look for a perfect president. When are you going to elect a perfect president?

55. OK. Now it seems as though Southerners talk more on cell phones than people in other parts of the country. New Yorkers rank near the bottom of conversation. We only talk 713 minutes per month. People in in the Gulf Coast states and Southerners talk the most, 800 minutes per month. RICH: Well, you know… KOTB: Explain. RICH: You know why that is. KOTB: Explain. RICH: Because inthe South, you know, you pick up the phone and you call somebody and the first thing you say is, Well, how you doing? Well, how's your mom and them doing? Yeah. How's Sally Sue? How's Bobby Sue? How's Johnny Lee?' KOTB: Yeah. RICH: And you go through the whole thing. They go, I forgot what I was even calling about, but I'll call you back later.

56. We averaged that for the last three months of the Bush administration. He is confronting that. He has stopped the hemorrhaging. We are now growing jobs in the private sector. When you do big things, you tend to have these kinds of second guesses taking place by the American people. Lyndon Johnson told us when he signed the Voting Rights Act back in 1965, one of the biggest things that ever happened to African-American voters in this country that he was signing away his party's dominance in the South by doing that.

57. For 40 years I've polled the American people. There are - it's an aggregate, no more tolerant - this country has made such progress in race relations. And, you know, this argument and - I'm a white Southerner who came out of the Civil Rights movement as a teenager in the 1960s in the South. I spent much of my political career helping elect black mayors all across the country for the first time in many major cities. I feel very strongly about the progress we have made and I think the president - whatever the problem is, it's not a racial problem here. It is a problem of division of philosophies and parties, and we need to get above that.

58. Fifty years ago today, several hundred students, civil rights activists, gathered at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. After months of sit-ins and protests, they talked about tactics, strategy and about goals. The students shared stories they heard from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And then on April 17th, 1960, Easter Sunday, they founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to work for a social order of justice permeated by love. At great risk, SNCC members defied Jim Crow to register voters across the South. They organized more sit-ins, freedom rides, the Mississippi Freedom Summer.

59. They might be a special treat for this northerner we have with us. «» Thank you, sir.» Astrid sat, grateful for both the happy snap of the fire and the heat. The guest room where she'd stayed the previous night had not been heated, and while the South was known for its warmth, today, with a damp wind blowing, it felt more like Chicago. It had been raining yesterday and earlier this morning, not exactly a welcome she'd have associated with the South. All the things she'd read about this part of the country included sunshine, heat, and humidity.

60. «Have fun down South.» He'd just come from the South. Hot as hell weather. Humidity that killed. And southern drawls that he loved. Drawls like the one that whispered just beneath Monica's words. Monica brushed by him, not even saying a word. Well, damn. So much for a big, warm welcome.

61. Racial segregation (separation) was widely accepted in the U.S. at that time, especially in the South. African - Americans had few rights. Those who dared to claim their rights met certain trouble: anything from loss of a home or job to imprisonment or even death. The four Greensboro students dared to risk such dangers. They staged a small, simple protest. No one then realized that their «sit-in» would help ignite one of U.S. history's most powerful efforts for change: the civil rights movement.

62. The rural Southern Bible Belt provided a fertile crop of these studies, whom she exaggerated to make her tales come alive. «While the South is hardly Christcentered,» she wrote, «it is most certainly Christ-haunted.» The embellishment of her characters did not render them unrealistic, but rather genuine and authentic.

63. Furthermore, polling consistently showed that most whites, even outside the South, viewed the pace of desegregation as adequate or too rapid - this at a time when desegregation had hardly occurred. To defeat the violence and apathy, the movement faced two strategic challenges. First, it had to confront the segregationist Southern governments. Second, it had to maneuver the federal government from its de facto neutrality to active support for black civil rights.

64. «During the first season, as the show was finding its way, it used vampirism as a stand-in for» invisible «people, from homosexuals to African-Americans living in the South.» I grew up in a small town in Georgia, «Ball says,» and you never even saw African - Americans. I'm gay, so it was clear to me from an early age that people demonize things they don't understand. »

65. Vfells fled the city herself Seven years later, on an expanse of land adjoining the same house of worship, Robert R. Church Sr., a former slave who became the South's first black millionaire, created Church Park and Auditorium - the city's first such amenities for AfricanAmericans - and later hired W C. Handy to lead the park's orchestra.

66. My wife and I just returned from a visit to North and South Carolina where we're searching a novel set in the Antebellum South just before the outbreak of the Civil War. While in Raleigh on the street, we encountered two young ladies, African - Americans, attending Shaw University. Both are from the Los Angeles area. I'm white and three months shy of my 70th birthday, I asked the young ladies about Ella Josephine Baker and the founding of SNCC. They were clueless about Miss Baker and SNCC. I wondered to myself, is this progress? And he says, perhaps it is.

67. Fifty years ago, few could imagine an African-American president. Jim Crow still ruled the deep South. Sit-ins spread to segregated lunch counters across the country, and as the fights for civil rights really organized, a group of students came together to help lead the way. They formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

68. Well, Jackie, first of all, was older than Willie, and really was a completely different background. Jacky came from California, went to UCLA. Willie, of course, is from the deep South. But they - and while the two of them had great respect for each other as baseball players, Jackie in particular was very critical of Willie for not being more outspoken on civil rights.

69. Sharon had come east to George Washington University, even though Helen said no one smart went to GW, ever, and at the end of her junior year Sharon had found herself sitting at a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee meeting planning the Freedom Riders' trip from Washington to New Orleans, to register voters and fight Jim Crow in each city along the way. By summer, Sharon and her roommate, Louise Stein, decided they wanted to accompany the hundreds of other kids, black and white, all ready to sit together at luncheonettes across the South. The Klan was rumored to be waiting in Birmingham to beat Riders, but Sharon and Louise ignored these reports, believing that being together and doing what was right would somehow arm them against terrible violence.

70. It was also where he was exposed to the first and only continuous schooling he'd ever know. Most of the time, though, he lived on the road with Poppy and Rose. From the moment he entered their lives, the focus was on the Bible, and together they studied it with religious intent - just not Christian intent. There was a new fervor of religious sentiment in small - town America, at least in the South, and Poppy and Rose wanted to capitalize on it.

71. «Do you have such a woman, Captain Benton?» He didn't answer for a moment, decided to only reply in the negative as he usually did when someone asked that, then found himself saying much more. " No. My wife died several years ago, during the war with the South.

72. Control of the Democratic Party by the South coupled with Northern antipathy to slavery may have created the tension that had its point of rupture with the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Ft Sumter. Perhaps these events permitted rationalization of previous disillusion.

73. Optimism among Northerners rested in part on the impression of slave owners as effete, corrupt, and indolent - a viewpromoted for 30 years by abolitionists. Southerners, many in the North came to believe, were too weak to resist a determined attack by the virtuous foes of an evil such as slavery. In the South, as rage at such insults mounted, a reflexive defiance fostered the doctrine that one Rebel could defeat 10 canting, lying Yankees. For Northerners, the battle of Bull Run in 1861 put to rest the notion mat their opponents were patsies.

74. To the east, another line ran through the wilderness country toward the heart of the Confederacy. Over the first months of the war, with more of the ocean and Gulf ports blockaded and battle lines encircling the deep South, the railroad connection at Vicksburg became the city's main surviving link to the outside world. Jefferson Davis called Vicksburg «the nailhead tiat holds die South's two halves together.»

75. Yet surprisingly, this rich and nourishing genre, crafted to engage teens, still evades high-school curricula. With a handful of exceptions - such as Mildred Taylor's landmark novel about the Jim Crow South from the perspective of 9-year-old Cassie Logan (Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry) or Julia Alvarez's epic tale of four sisters fleeing the Dominican Republic for the U.S.

76. The women of the gulf are calling it «a man-made disaster with a woman-led response.» That's because while the two main industries on the Gulf Coast, oil and fishing, are both male dominated, it's women who are now in leadership roles picking up after this latest mess - including providing support services that have become increasingly vital as more men are put out of work. As LaTosha Brown of the Gulf Coast Fund explains, «This is the South, and strong women have always dominated in the South.»

77. Harry Truman was shuffling out of office in a funk of unpopularity. Ike had beaten Adlai Stevenson decisively the previous November, with 83 percent of the electoral vote and the strongest Republican showing in the South in years.

78. Why did you decide to stay and live in the South? I am originally from Florence. When I had my daughter at 44, things in my life changed. Before Maggie was born, I was more of a jet-setter. After she came along, I really understood the true value of raising a child in a healthy environment.

79. Before 1965, few blacks in the Deep South could even vote. Nowhere in the South were they able to influence legislation and law enforcement through the normal political process. The civil rights movement attempted to gain access to political power by coercion. Had it been done with guns, no one would hesitate to think of it as an insurgency. The first substantive objection to calling the movement an insurgency - that Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights activists employed nonviolence - fundamentally misunderstands the nature of insurgency.

80. While grass-roots organizers worked to register black voters in the Deep South, the SCLC planned another major campaign of direct action, this one primarily designed to force Johnson to act. The new target was Selma, Alabama. The reasons for selecting Selma were much the same as for Birmingham. The civil rights movement had a strong organization already operating in the city.

81. But Davis also demonstrated how difficult it is to pull off an Obama-like victory in the Deep South. In a sense, Obama had it easier. Voters elsewhere were somewhat less polarized than in the South. And the historic nature of Obama's candidacy got people fired up.

82. South Carolina sent the South's first black Republican since Reconstruction, Tim Scott, to the US Senate instead of Mr. Thurmond's son. And voters have twice elected an Indian-American governor, Nikki Haley. In March, a police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man in North Charleston. When a video showed the officer shooting the fleeing man and apparently planting a weapon near his body, prosecutors took only hours to charge the officer with murder.

83. There's a recognition that mistakes were made, and even though it's a long time after some of these atrocities happened, there's a commitment to doing what's right and recognizing that it's no longer acceptable to defend anything about the segregationist part of the South's past, " says Gibbs Knotts, an expert on Southern politics at the College of Charleston. As recently as the early 2000s, the state fought hard to keep the Confederate flag flying on the capitol grounds, but Brackett's quest for actual justice for the Friendship Nine isn't a one-off in this low-tax, low-income state of 4.8 million.

84. «For outsiders, especially those not from rural South Carolina, it's sometimes hard to imagine the cross-racial ease between blacks and whites, which in some ways has made the tack toward reconciliation easier to hold.» Blacks and whites in the South, despite divisions on Sunday morning, interact with each other - particularly in rural communities - far more than folks outside the region realize, «says Mr. Knotts.» There's commonality between black and white Southerners around culture. It's the food, the focus on family, and faith that brings them together in a lot of ways.

85. During the Southern Renaissance of the 1920s and' 30s, writers were still sloughing off a post-Civil War haze. With distance came boldness, and writers like Faulkner and others turned their pens toward the burdens of history, the cost of defeat, the fight for identity, and the South's unresolved racial issues.

86. «Nor do you have to be Southern to write about the South. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison is a good example, notes Ted Ownby, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. Though she was born in Ohio, he ranks her among the writers producing some of the most powerful work about the South over the past 40 years.» Themes about the disillusionment and disenfranchisement of Southerners, the disconnect between the Southern mind and American mind - those themes are still prevalent, but the South is increasingly a homogenized global community, «says Dr. Crank, of the University of Alabama.» Growing up in a suburb of Atlanta is not a lot different than growing up in a suburb of Portland, Ore. «Yet something remains distinct about the South. And no matter what the future holds - for» Watchman «or the region's literary oeuvre - its storied past will likely continue to hold allure.»

87. The issue is particularly sensitive in South Carolina, where the state legislature in July voted to retire the flag from the State House grounds. That decision came after Dylann Roof, who is accused of killing nine black parishioners on June 17 at a historic church in Charleston, S.C., was depicted waving the Confederate flag. But the renewed push against the flag has created a backlash: The rural South is now frequently the stage for impromptu truck protests where large and small Confederate flags are flown. Most Confederate flag supporters say it's simply a point of pride for those whose ancestors fought for the Confederacy. But critics point to the use of the flag by Southern governors during the civil rights era, when it became a powerful symbol of racial segregation. As for the situation at Christiansburg, some believe the students may have the opening for a lawsuit.

88. Mississippi has expressed its savagery in a number of ways throughout its history - slavery being the cruelest example, but a close second being Mississippi's infatuation with lynchings. Lynchings were prevalent, prominent and participatory. A lynching was a public ritual - even carnival-like - within many states in our great nation. While other states engaged in these atrocities, those in the Deep South took a leadership role….

89. The images are at once inspiring and unnerving, capturing the best and worst of humanity in the Deep South during a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. Hundreds of unpublished protest photos from Montgomery, Ala., in 1965, recently donated to the Library of Congress, are presenting historians and others with a trove of new evidence depicting ways that the drive for black voting rights was sustained by thousands of eager college students, including scores who headed to the South from Pennsylvania campuses.

90. As North and South headed closer to Civil War - mostly over the issue of slavery - Great Britain saw its interests aligning more with the Southern states. That region provided cotton for British mills, and its wealthy planters were consumers of British manufactured goods.

91. The Supreme Court's 1954 Brown decision, the Montgomery bus boycott and the crisis over desegregation of Little Rock Central High School all coincided with my college years. I wanted to know more about the South and about the history of race relations, so I continued on to graduate school at Johns Hopkins. # While I was in Baltimore, the civil rights movement exploded, and I was starkly aware of the parallels between the 1860s and the 1960s. Wanting to understand the relationship between the past and present, I decided to do my Ph.D. dissertation on the civil rights activists of the 1860s

92. As a first, it' s hard to top the bravery of Ruby Bridges, who tells us in our 3 Questions feature what it was like to be the first child to desegregate an American public elementary school in the South.

93. Blacks, Siegel writes, were invited to enter the larger society on their own terms. Schools, which had helped poor whites, ceased incorporating poor blacks from the South into the mainstream culture. Discipline as a prerequisite for adult success was displaced by the authentic self-expression of the ill-educated. Blacks were not culturally deprived, but simply differently-abled-more spontaneous and expressive and so forth. Liberals tried to improve conditions for blacks without passing judgment on antisocial black culture, and this sort of thinking continues to this day.

94. Section: Articles The fictions that sustained the American South # Alongside this summer's debate over the meanings of the Confederate flag, sparked by the Charleston shootings, another story about the history of American racism flared up.

95. The South responded to Uncle Tom's Cabin with a furious denunciation of Stowe's knowledge and motives, insisting on the benevolence of their «peculiar institution» an especially sordid euphemism that recast plantation slavery as an endearing regional quirk. # Once institutional slavery was irrevocably destroyed, nostalgia prevailed, and southerners began producing novels, poems and songs romanticising the lost, halcyon days of the antebellum era.

96. There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South Here in this pretty world Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilisation gone with the wind as history recedes into ellipses. # Yet even this feudalist imagery has a specific history of its own, forming another crucial part of the popular culture of the Lost Cause.

97. Eleanor most likely had no idea her will had been changed. # The rest of the letter was a repeat of his farewell speech. He was sorry if his absence caused her pain, but after Lincoln announced his Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862, the war brazenly attacked slavery in a way it hadn't before. But slavery is God-ordained, he'd said, and without it, the South can not survive. This was why he'd decided to fight. So that white Southerners could keep Negroes in bondage. # White Southerners like me.

98. They also had another skill which proved to be invaluable in combat - they were all distillers by avocation. Their manner of speech was charming but sprinkled with the most obscene profanity, their religion was strictly born-again fundamental Baptist and all firmly believed the South would rise again! Their attitude towards their Yankee offcers was respectful but distant, neither insubordination nor, asskissing.

99. you know, most of these fugitives came from the upper South. The largest number came from Maryland, Delaware, then you go back down a little further, maybe Washington, D.C., Virginia. You know, for obvious reasons, if you look at a map, it was a lot easier to escape from Delaware and Maryland than from Mississippi, you know? Maryland borders on several free states, and that's where most of these fugitives came from. So they didn't want to be sold to the Deep South, you know? It's not that slavery in the upper South was such a picnic, but it was widely believed among slaves, for good reason, that down in the lower South, in the Cotton Kingdom, conditions were much more brutal, much more difficult.

100. Critics of the proposed proclamation had lifted up the church constitution's silence on extra-missionary statements. But Brown understood the war as crucial to the fulfillment of Baptist theology. The South had sinned against God (in what ways he was not clear) and the punishment of war was justly deserved. The restoration and regeneration of the national soul required the people of the Confederacy to «return to God, humble themselves in his presence and implore his aid.»

Примеры интервью с американскими политиками и деятелями культуры

1. `There's an Awakening in Our Country': A Q&A With Jimmy Carter

John Meroney: What are your thoughts on being a Southerner in 2015? Are you still proud of your heritage?

President Jimmy Carter: Oh, yes-and prouder today than I was the day before yesterday. I think it's a good move for the South Carolina legislature to take [down the Confederate flag]. Georgia did that 14 years ago, and North Carolina did it even earlier. There's an awakening in our country and I don't know how trenchant or permanent it will be. The recent high publicity about police singling out blacks for extraordinary abuse, and this terrible event in Charleston, will make us take another look at ourselves.

Meroney: What are your thoughts about the Confederate flag being placed into a military museum?

Carter: It's all right with me. My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners. A museum is a very legitimate place to honor those who fought and what they really believed in. But to maintain the battle flag as a symbol of white supremacy is contrary to what most Americans want.

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Meroney: Is there more racism in the country now than when you were president?

Carter: I think there is. After the civil-rights movement was successful-about a hundred years after the end of the War Between the States, the Civil War-there was a general feeling in this country that the main elements of racism, of white superiority, had finally been overcome. With the news media showing the police abuse toward black people in some places, and the terrible events in Charleston, South Carolina, maybe we've been awakened to say that we've still got a long way to go. The burgeoning of obvious, extreme racism has been a sobering factor for us.

Meroney: In your new book, you publish some of your poems. What impact did the legendary Southern poet James Dickey, who also wrote the novel Deliverance, have on you?

Carter: James Dickey was a close personal friend of mine. When I was campaigning for president in 1976, he used to come down to Plains and sit on the balcony of our depot and sometimes read poems to the people and shake hands and let them know he was for me. On my inaugural day, when I became president, he gave the preeminent inaugural poem-he wrote it especially for me. I was with him also when they had the inauguration of the movie version of Deliverance in Atlanta. I sat side-by-side with him at the first showing. <…> (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/jimmy-carter-QA/398279/)

2. Dishing with Condoleezza Rice.

How have your Southern roots shaped your life?

Once you're of the South, you're always of the South. Even though I left Birmingham and moved to Colorado when I was 12, if people ask me where I am from, I immediately say «the South.» I think it's because of my Southern roots that I have a strong emphasis on family, faith and, well, food.

What's your favorite Southern dish?

Fried chicken! My grandmother made great fried chicken and passed her recipe on to my mother, and they both passed it on to me. It's the exact same recipe that has been shared among all of the women in my family, although we didn't have a written recipe. I learned by being in the kitchen with them.

This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King's «Letter from Birmingham Jail.» What was it like to live in Birmingham at a time when the South was still racially segregated?

It was like living in parallel societies. We didn't go to school, restaurants, or movie theaters with white people. We lived two completely separate lives. I was lucky because I grew up in Titusville, a middle-class neighborhood in Birmingham, so we had our own ballet, piano, and French lessons.

What memory of growing up at that time has stayed with you?

It seems strange now to have a racial charge centered around Santa Claus. But, when I was 5, I remember going to see Santa with my mama and daddy. The Santa Claus was placing the little black kids to the side of him and putting the white kids on his knee. My father noticed this, and I heard him say to my mom: «If he does that to Condi, I am going to pull off his costume and expose him for who he really is.» Santa must have read my father's body language, and when I got up there he put me right on his knee.

How would you describe the South to someone who has never visited?

Because I lived in Alabama during segregation, the South reminds me of how much people can overcome and how the human spirit is irrepressible. When I go back to Birmingham now, it is such a different city than I grew up in. Then, I couldn't have a hamburger at the Woolworth's lunch counter. Still, my parents had me absolutely convinced that I could become the President of the United States. Instead I became the Secretary of State. <…> (http://thedailysouth.southernliving.com/2013/03/20/dishing-with-condoleezza-rice/)

3. Paper Napkin Interview: Dishing with Andie MacDowell

Did you have any adjustments to make when you moved back to the South?

I had grown accustomed to the abrupt New York lifestyle with no time for cordialness. When I moved back I found myself thinking «Quit talking and do your grocery shopping.» As time went on, I got back into a healthy Southern groove. Now I'm just like everybody else - «How are you?» and «Isn't it a beautiful day?!»

Unlike some Southern stars, you've maintained an authentic accent. Intentional?

Yes. As an actress I've mastered many accents, but for my real life I prefer a Southern accent, because it's beautiful, charming, musical, feminine, and sexy all rolled into one.

What is the biggest misconception about Southerners?

That we're unintelligent. Our slow politeness is interpreted as mud for brains. But we watch and think and keep our mouths shut when others should. And look at the list of Southern writers-William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Thomas Wolfe. Now, if we're stupid, where did these people come from?

Do you have a favorite set-in-the-South film?

To Kill a Mockingbird. I will forever be in love with Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch-he's the perfect man. I've looked for years, but can't seem to find him anywhere. <…>

(http://www.southernliving.com/community/dishing-with-andie-macdowell)

4. Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers.

JACQUELINE WOODSON: (Reading) February 12, 1963. I am born on a Tuesday at University Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA, a country caught between black and white. I am born not long from the time or far from the place where my great-great-grandparents worked the deep, rich land unfree, dawn till dusk, unpaid, drank cool water from scooped-out gourds, looked up and followed the sky's myriad constellation to freedom. I am born as the South explodes - too many people, too many years, enslaved then emancipated but not free. The people who look like me keep fighting and marching and getting killed so that today, February 12, 1963, and every day from this moment on, brown children like me can grow up free, can grow up learning and voting and walking and writing wherever we want. I am born in Ohio, but the stories of South Carolina already run like rivers through my veins.

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GROSS: The North and the South are like characters in your book. You're born in Ohio. Your mother's from Greenville, S.C., where your maternal grandparents still lived when you were born. When your parents separated when you were very young, you, your mother and your siblings moved to South Carolina to be with your grandparents. But then later as a girl, you moved to be with your mother in Brooklyn. When you moved to the South to Greenville when you were - what? - 1 years old?

WOODSON: I was probably little bit - I was an infant.

GROSS: Oh. OK.

WOODSON: So I wasn't yet walking.

GROSS: So what was the state of segregation when you were growing up in the South?

WOODSON: The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was still a very segregated South. And the town we lived in - Nicholtown, which was a small community within Greenville, S.C. - was an all-black community. And people still lived very segregated lives, I think, because that was all they had always known. And there was still this kind of danger to integrating. So people kind of stayed in the places - the safe places that they had always known.

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GROSS: Now as an adult who's lived in the North and in the South, do you see both sides of that dispute?

WOODSON: I completely see both sides of that dispute. I think there is such a richness to the South and a lushness and a way of life. I could never live it full time (laughter). You know, I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home. <…>

(http://www.npr.org/2015/06/19/415747871/jacqueline-woodson-on-growing-up-coming-out-and-saying-hi-to-strangers)

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