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?

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.

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

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