PJ O' Rourke

From his book "Driving Like Crazy"
What was the difference between the South and the rest of America? There wasn't any. The South was the rest of America . . . what we've had all along in this bizarre, slightly troubling, basically wonderful country - fun, danger, real friendliness, energy, enthusiasm, and brave, crazy, tough people . . . Put us all together and we're the biggest, baddest sons of bitches anywhere . . . Nobody's eating roughage, running marathons, and taking yoga classes down there. People still drink, smoke, still have guns, and still believe in a personal God who listens to them. They're not worried about the future. This country didn't come from people who worried about the future. It came from people who whipped the future's ass.