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[ noun ] an American who lives in the South
Used in print (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)A third remarked of slowness of Southerners : `` They moved about from corner to corner , as uneasy as a litter of hungry leaches on the neck of a wooden god '' . Scarcity of paper caused many Southerners to adopt the practice of cross writing , i._e. , after writing from left to right of the page in the usual manner , they gave the sheet a half turn and wrote from end to end across the lines previously written . (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)For over a_hundred years Southerners have felt that the North was picking on them . By what right of superior virtue , Southerners ask , do the people of the North do this ? (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)The young William_Faulkner in New_Orleans in the 1920 's impressed the novelist Hamilton_Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner , and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so . Related terms |
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