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.
The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? - John Shelton Reed
The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?
- John Shelton Reed
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 mo… - John Shelton Reed
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 mo…
I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism. - John Shelton Reed
I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.
The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it. it just might split at the seams. It doesn't … - John Shelton Reed
The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it. it just might split at the seams. It doesn't …
No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, wome… - John Shelton Reed
No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, wome…
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 Reed
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?
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 s… - John Shelton Reed
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 s…
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Con… - John Shelton Reed
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Con…
There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don… - John Shelton Reed
There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don…
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