The use of “Southern” as if there exists such singularity in people or culture is misleading, actually wrong. Across the wide expanse of area usually called “the South” is amazing variety in both people and cultures: Native Americans, African Americans from Gullah-Geechee to urbanites, Cajuns, Appalachian natives, cowboys, modern farmers, those who celebrate Irish or Scotch or Scotch-Irish or German heritage. And that just introduces the diversity of the South.