
Alabama, for some reason I cannot determine, seems to me to be the most southern state of the South. -Pearl Buck
“The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.”
– Florence King
Holy Ghost Disturbed Church, Bonita, LA
“In the provincial South … family ties rival the rampant kudzu for entanglement and tenacity.”
– Sharon McKern
“Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy … If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away, or shot, they will not only tolerate it, but take pride in it as well.”
– Florence King