[Cedar]

The South is simply the South.

All true Southerners know what "the South" is. It doesn't need to be explained.

The explanations are always for the rest of the country, and usually those explanations get at least a little of it right.

"The South" is more something that you are---not a region to be described.

[stainlessbanner]

Well said, Cedar. Perhaps the most intriguing think about the South is that outsiders cannot describe it.

One of my favorite accounts is in JT Glisson's "The Creek". His description of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, an outsider, who bought a place in their small community to write about them and capture the "essence" of Crackers/Southerners, is priceless.