Category: Essays

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in a small farming...

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I may have grown up a Yankee,...

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My yard dogs are polite and only bark when strangers walking by neglect them and forget to speak to them. The voices of people I've never met will waft up to the second story windows of my home, "Hello there, everything okay today? How ya' doing? Sweet pups. Nice pups ... "

Southern Legitimacy Statement: One hundred percent Southern. Born and bred...

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Alex Pickens grew up in Southern Appalachia...

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a farm girl who still...

Southern Legitimacy Statement: You can’t go much further south than...

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Though I live in Massachusetts now, I...

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Honestly, I don’t really have a Southern...