American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God
American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God The old saying: “American by birth, Southern by the grace of God” certainly applies to me. I’m an ethnic Southerner who was raised in the north – but who, for the past 25 years (with the exception of my three year educational exile to the permafrost of Fort Wayne, Indiana) has lived in the Deep South. In fact, for the past 17 years, I have lived so far in the Deep South that it is really barely Southern at all – being south of the South. But we were graciously permitted membership in the Confederacy, given the tolerance and ethnic ...
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