Southerners Smile More Than Other Americans.

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.

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.

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 Don't Think Massification And Globalization And All Those Other 'izations' Are Necessarily Hostile To Regionalism.

As Long As There Are Japanese Tourists, There Will Be A Market For The Old South.