We Southerners are, of course, a mythological people. Supposed to dwell in moonlight or incandescence, we are in part to blame for our own legendary character. Lost by choice in dreaming of high days gone and big house burned, now we cannot even wish to escape.
Jonathan W. Daniels Carolinian
Source
A Southerner Discovers the South (New York: The Macmillan Co, 1938) ch. 1, p. 1
- year
- 1938
- locator
- p. 1
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“We Southerners are, of course, a mythological people. Suppos…” Jonathan W. Daniels. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-99B8459675. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/99b8459675