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Top 20 John Shelton Reed Quotes (2025 Update)

John Shelton Reed Quote: “Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.”

1. “Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “I don’t think massification and globalization and all those other ‘izations’ are necessarily hostile to regionalism.”

2. “I don’t think massification and globalization and all those other ‘izations’ are necessarily hostile to regionalism.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.”

3. “Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.”

4. “Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “Southerners smile more than other Americans.”

6. “Southerners smile more than other Americans.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.”

7. “Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.”

8. “Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “I’ve occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I’m not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.”

10. “I’ve occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I’m not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “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 look much like it used to, but it’s more comfortable, and there’s probably a lot of wear left in it.”

11. “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 look much like it used to, but it’s more comfortable, and there’s probably a lot of wear left in it.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “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?”

12. “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 Quote: “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 Confederate past. It’s something that’s open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.”

13. “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 Confederate past. It’s something that’s open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “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?”

14. “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?”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don’t have labels for middle-class Southerners.”

17. “Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don’t have labels for middle-class Southerners.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie – in Alabama – Dixie is slipping. They’ve stopped using the word in commercial listings.”

18. “Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie – in Alabama – Dixie is slipping. They’ve stopped using the word in commercial listings.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people’s music.”

19. “Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people’s music.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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John Shelton Reed Quote: “As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.”

21. “As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.”

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