Southern man?

As someone who grew up in the South, I had to deal with misconceptions about the South on almost a daily basis. Once I moved up to the Midwest, I thought I was through with them...but I was not. The state of confusion over Southern identity is pretty much messed up across the board.

This is one of the things that academics need to do: clear up not the confusion but the roots of that confusion. Notice this interview with David Williams covering his book Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War, which argues that most Southerners did not support the Confederacy.

Lies and misconceptions must always be exposed.