Lets make a list of well known southerners - please add to

[donheld]

I'll start

Molly Ivins
Ann Richards
Jim Hightower
John Edwards
Wesley Clark



This my calm the fuss of:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2808386#2814228

[henslee]

1. William Price Fox. Awesome writer, professor, essayist democrat, barbecue

expert, AKA Doctor Golf.... who never answers my fanmail but I dig him anyway.

[mitchum]

9. Bill is a wonderful man...

a great friend, teacher, (and also in my case) nag :)

[chaska]

32. I took a couple of classes with him.

He thought *I* was bizarre.

Great guy. Pretty odd, but that's a good thing. How did that old codger get that hot a** wife?

She subbed for him once (she's also a writer). Pretty darn distracting. I'm just sayin'.... :evilgrin:

[mitchum]

36. Bill got Sarah because he is one of the luckiest men in the world...

and he knows it :)

[Crunchy Frog]

2. Bill Moyers,

Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Max Cleland, Robert Byrd, MLK.

[chuckrocks]

3. well it's 5:38 here

lynard skynard, the gym teacher.
http://www.skynyrd.com/
who loves ya?

[Osamasux]

11. I still think they really got the name from

Allen Sherman's song - 'Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh'
"You remember Leonard Skinner?
He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner."

[drdon326]

4. Kim Basinger....

Julia Roberts
Courtney Cox
Oprah
Samuel L Jackson
Sela Ward
Jessica Simpson

Jimmy Carter
William Jefferson Clinton
President Albert Gore

Elvis

Charles Barkley
Micheal Jordan

99% of NASCAR

[rabbit2484]

8. Not to rain on your parade but...

There are a lot of NASCAR drivers from Wisconsin, Indiana, California, and the North East.

But don't forget Jimmy Buffett.

[Iris]

31. Holly Hunter

[retread]

5. One of my personal heroes-- Stetson Kennedy.

*

[dbt]

6. Johnny Cash, the TRUE King of Rock And Roll.

Then there are Glen Campbell, Al Green, Levon Helm and Louis Jordan. Arkies all!

:bounce:
dbt

[wolfgirl]

7. Fannie Flagg eom

[ScaRBama]

10. This is just a few from Alabama...

Henry Aaron
Mel Allen
Bobby Bowden
Joe Lewis
Willie Mays
Lionel Richie
Nat "King" Cole
Helen Keller
Truman Capote

[Name removed]

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[Osamasux]

13. How about some presidents

George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Zachary Taylor
Woodrow Wilson

[Forkboy]

14. Wayne Williams

:evilgrin:

[DemBones DemBones]

28. True, but John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Son of Sam, Boston Strangler

(whose name escapes me at the moment -- Albert DiSalvo?), Charles Manson, etc. are/were NOT Southerners.

Besides which, as you well know, the purpose of the thread was to name Southerners who are famous for GOOD reasons, not those who are merely notorious.

[Forkboy]

39. You southerners are so touchy

I was injecting a little levity.I knew someone wouldn't be able to take it.

Make some fun of Mass,you'll feel better and I can take it :)

[stanwyck]

15. Well, of course,

there are all those wonderful writers: Faulkner, O'Connor, Welty, Walker Percy, Reynolds Price, Truman Capote, ..
Rosalyn Carter is my favorite first lady. As First Lady, she knew the issues, travelled the world, was gracious but never sychophatic. She and Jimmy are a class act. They live their spirituality. Our current first couple is all talk, no walk.

[Name removed]

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[ernstbass]

19. Tennesse Williams, John Grisham

[RedEarth]

16. Will Rogers

Woody Guthrie
Wiley Post
George Washington Carver
Martin Luther King

[Laughing Mirror]

17. Gore Vidal

If you want only living breathing specimens. If not, the list will go on endlessly.

[Ripley]

20. Jimmie Carter.

Truman Capote
Anne Richards

[yellowdogintexas]

21. Robert Penn Warren, Retired Speaker Jim Wright!

Andrew Jackson
Davey Crockett

John Sharp (hopefully next gov of Texas)

[Sparkly]

22. The Big Dawg!!

Don't forget him! :)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. Martin Luther King, Cynthia McKinney, John Lewis, Juliand Bond

Funny how "Southerner" seems to equate to White here.

[MikeG]

24. Huckleberry Hound.

[DemBones DemBones]

29. And Foghorn Leghorn, don't forgot.

I say, I say!

[jarab]

25. Helen Thomas

...O...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

26. Jimmy Carter.....Capote....Twain........Cynthia McKinney

[ElsewheresDaughter]

27. the GREAT Huey P. Long....Kingfish......

No other Governor in Louisiana history affected the political and social landscape like Huey Long. His impact lasted far beyond his death.

The anti-Longs often did not approve of increasing political participation for blacks and poor whites which Long fought for through the removal of the poll tax as a voting qualification. His detractors opposed Long's methods of controlling the legislature and his demagogic methods of appealing to the masses.

Long's single-minded use of power not only strengthened the executive branch, it helped him achieve his goals. His highway program built almost 13,000 miles of roads. All schoolchildren received free textbooks whether the communities wanted them or not. Funding for LSU and the Port of New Orleans greatly increased.

Long expanded the Charity Hospital System, built LSU Medical School and brought natural gas to New Orleans.

Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1930 while still governor, Long remained in his state office until his slate of candidates took over in 1932. He brought his radical social platform of redistributing wealth to the national level and appeared to be a serious threat to President Roosevelt in the 1936 election. History, however, was deprived of such a contest. Huey Long's tumultuous career was cut short by an assassin's bullet in 1935. Shot by an assailant in a corridor of the very capitol he built, he died on Sep-
tember 10th. Long is buried on the capitol grounds. A fascist dictator or latter day "Robin Hood", he remains in political lore the one and only "Kingfish".

[Iris]

30. William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker,

Mark Twain, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Tom Wolfe, Zora Neale Hurston

[Laughing Mirror]

33. Corrine Brown

[donheld]

34. Also all the members of R.E.M.

at least i think they are all liberal.

[AngryOldDem]

35. James Dickey

[misanthrope]

37. How 'bout...

Medger Evers & Byron de la Beckwith

Hank Williams & George Wallace

Lyndon Johnson & Lee Harvey Oswald

Jesse Owens & John Rocker

Louis Armstrong & David Duke

Ray Charles & Bull Connor

Emmett Till & Orville Faubus

Ralph Abernathy & Lester Maddox

George Washington Carver & Trent Lott

Little Richard & Strom Thurmond

James Brown & William Bedford Forrest

Fats Domino & James Earl Ray

John Coltrane & Judge Roy Moore

[misanthrope]

38. Also...

...Cleon Jones, Amos Otis, Tommie Agee, Satchel Paige, Charles O. Finley, Kenny "Snake" Stabler, Bo Jackson, Vince Dooley, Herschel Walker, Emmitt Smith, Walter Payton, Jerry Rice, Peyton Manning, Chet Atkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Prudhomme, George Lindsey, Andy Griffith, Jim Nabors, Tallulah Bankhead, Harper Lee, W.C. Handy, Cootie Williams, Urbie Green, James Reese Europe, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Albert Murray, Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Eddie Kendrick, Parker Posey, Sidney Bechet, Zachary Richard...

[klook]

40. Montgomery bus boycott instigator Rosa Parks

was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, the same place where George Washington Carver perfected peanut butter and numerous other products (and of course, where the "Tuskegee Experiments" crimes took place).

Other great Southerners:
jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley (Florida), jazz trumpeter Nat Adderley (Florida), boxer and draft resister Muhammad Ali (Kentucky), rock legends the Allman Brothers Band (Georgia/Florida), Hall of Fame baseball announcer Red Barber (Mississippi), R&B legends Booker T. and the M.G.'s (Tennessee/Missouri), jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman (Texas), klan-killer Morris Dees (Alabama), country singers and Bush bashers the Dixie Chicks (Texas), singer-songwriter and AAR host Steve Earle (Texas), former NPR host Bob Edwards (Kentucky), music goddess Aretha Franklin (Tennessee), master puppeteer Jim Henson (Mississippi), endless boogie child John Lee Hooker (Texas), author of "Conan the Barbarian" and other fantasy stories Robert E. Howard (Texas), big hair singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett (Texas), mad chess genius Paul Morphy (Louisiana), jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius (Florida), music god Otis Redding (Georgia), rocker Michelle Shocked (Texas), singer/movie star Tina Turner (Tennessee), jazz vocalist Dinah Washington (Alabama), singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams (Louisiana).

[klook]

43. And how could I forget Sun Ra?!

Born Herman "Sonny" Blount in Birmingham, Alabama, "The Magic City."

[JHB]

41. Emperor Penguins

Can't get much more southern than them!

:evilgrin:

[Bluebear]

42. Tallulah Bankhead dahling.

[ShaneGR]

44. No one has said the obvious name..... Bill Clinton

So I did.

[klook]

45. He's been mentioned twice (posts #2 and #4)

But it doesn't hurt to mention him again.