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?

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• John Shelton Reed:

  Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

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  The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in

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• John Shelton Reed:

  Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is goi