![]() ![]() My South is a place of inclusion and of kindness. It’s a place where grandparents are treasured for their wisdom, their stories, and for instilling in each new generation the importance of manners. It’s a place of porches dotted with step-over dogs and fly swatters hanging on nails. Where our definition of a fine cuisine is Vienna sausages and saltines, and a science experiment consists of throwing all the leftovers into a bowl with cream-of-something soup and calling it a casserole. My South is a place where people greet one another – even if it’s with a finger wave popped up from a steering wheel – pull over for funeral processions, and don’t mind their business. The South is more than the stereotypes used to define it. ![]() Here are 12 things you’ll learn about the South in the new It’s a Southern Thing book. In this book of columns written for It’s a Southern Thing, award-winning humorist Kelly Kazek evokes the beauty and quirky character of the South that raised her. But, in some indefinable way, we are a family. We don't all think the same, or look the same, or have the same genes. Some people wonder, what makes the South the South? Is it the borders of a group of states? The food? The mindset? Why do we Southerners think of ourselves as having an “otherness,” a sense of togetherness, that no other region in the nation can match?
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