There is more to being Southern than talking slow and eating grits. The South has a centuries-old culture as distinctive as our broad rivers and long hot August days ... "Vive la difference"!

Some folks find more excitement in coon hunting than politics. Football, hunting, fishing and all outdoor activities fascinate most Southerners, but best of all is Southern cooking, and after that, good conversation on the front porch while darkness invades the treetops, and the younguns chase light'n bugs in the yard.