Why Can I Write 'south'

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, Women - But Somehow It's Okay To Do That With Hillbillies.

Drive A Hundred Miles And The Barbecue Changes.

You 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.

I Think There's A Suspicion In The South Of People Putting On Airs. You See It In Most Successful Southern Politicians, But You Also See It In Someone Like Richard Petty, Who May Be A Multimillionaire Stock Car Driver, But He's Also Beloved Because He Has A Nice Self-deprecatory Way About Him.

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.