How Southern Are We?
 What does it mean to “be Southern,” and how do we fit into the picture? Does it even matter? Birthplace of both Margaret Mitchell and Martin Luther King Jr., Atlanta embodies the collision of Old and New South myths. Read about our identity crisis
Essays
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The south holds memories of my people. Beneath blistering suns and torrential rains, we toiled that someone else might prosper.
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Technically I’m Southern because I was born on the corner of State and Carlisle in Jackson, Mississippi. But I suppose that’s not what we’re talking about here.
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Asking someone who has made a career out of studying Southern identity to share his feelings about being a Southerner himself is a bit like asking a dermatologist to describe his own skin.
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The first thing i did was plant marigolds in
the red earth. I didn’t know what I was doing or why I was doing it. I didn’t especially like marigolds. Nor would they last long in the shade garden I had acquired upon moving to Atlanta.
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You have asked me, as a Southern writer, to produce a short personal essay on my Southern identity. I cannot do it.
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When I got to New York, it was an entirely different story. As a Columbia student in the early 1990s, I found the self-professed NYC melting pot very anti-South.
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The South is supposed to be haunted—crumbling houses and graveyards crowded with specters, spirits dripping like Spanish moss from ancient gnarled trees.
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To most of the world, I’m your standard-issue Cracker, a good ole boy who loves his mama and bourbon and Jesus (order subject to change).
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Quiz
 How Southern are you? Do you know your SEC from your ACC? Got Grandma's sweet potato pie recipe? And what do you know about potlikker? Measure your Southern IQ
Stats
 Behold, the results of our "How Southern Is Atlanta?" survey, which ran on our site in July 2012. Featuring your thoughts on sweet tea, the SEC, and saying "Yes, ma'am." See all the stats
Pig Tattoos
 Pork dominates Atlanta's menus, so it should be no surprise to find pigs adorning the tattooed arms of our restaurants cooks. View a slideshow of tattooed chefs
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Photo Essay
If there’s one time of week that Atlanta is indisputably Southern, it’s Sunday morning
Recipes by Carvel Grant Gould, Linton Hopkins, Darryl Evans, and Aaron Russell · A look at the ritual of cotillion
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