The Left Warned World Cup Tourists About the South. Then One German Fell in Love With It.
American leftists love to malign the South. We Southerners and our culture are the butt of jokes time and time again. Outsiders mock our accents and our traditions, sometimes in really ugly ways. Southerners get the broad-brush treatment regularly, with outsiders hurling generalizations our way constantly.
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The Left Warned World Cup Tourists About the South. Then One German Fell in Love With It. Chris Queen | 10:14 AM on June 11, 2026 AP Photo/Chuck Burton American leftists love to malign the South. We Southerners and our culture are the butt of jokes time and time again. Outsiders mock our accents and our traditions, sometimes in really ugly ways. Southerners get the broad-brush treatment regularly, with outsiders hurling generalizations our way constantly. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); As I wrote in my book Neon Crosses:Let’s be honest: the South is the most misunderstood region of the country.
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