Florence King

Reason vs romanticism

The American South? You don’t know the half of it

issue 23 April 2011

The American South? You don’t know the half of it

Stand by. I am going to explain the American South, a subject that makes the quantum theory seem like child’s play. The first thing you must understand is that there is no South — there are two. One is the Upper South of horses, tobacco and Episcopalians; and the other is the Deep South of mules, cotton and Baptists.

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