Drive A Hundred Miles And The Barbecue

But I Still Do Believe That There Are Useful Things To Say About Elvis Presley, Including What His Own Ordinariness As A Poor Southerner Says About 20th-century Hero-making.

If You Care To Define The South As A Poor, Rural Region With Lousy Race Relations, That South Survives Only In Geographical Shreds And Patches And Most Southerners Don't Live There Any More.

Drive A Hundred Miles And The Barbecue Changes.

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.

Every Time I Look At Atlanta I See What A Quarter Of A Million Confederate Soldiers Died To Prevent.