Watching the crowds surge round Mr Edwards, one local party leader said it was the nearest thing he had seen in politics to Elvis.Mr Edwards is a southerner, but unlikely to move any southern states out of Mr Bush's camp in the presidential contest.
Then I remember being in the car with my dad, driving back towards the lights of Sheffield, when Ray Davies helped me to see that I could just about cope with a north/south dual nationality and become a proud northern dirty southerner.
Mr Wolfe is a southerner, and so his social antennae there are razor-sharp especially on the Atlanta blue-bloods' envy forazor-sharp especiallyicity on Richmond, Charlesthe Atlantaannah, as well as the cultural confidence of New York.
A southerner who was also a Muslim, his election in 1993 would have threatened their 32-year grip on power.
Politically, he stood on the middle ground: fundamentally conservative (supporting the Nicaraguan contras, school prayer and guns) but bravely outspoken, especially as a southerner, on civil rights.
Beneath Presley's tightly controlled public image of the courteous young southerner was a boundless appetite for women and young girls.
This is not something to be downplayed as a criterion: Bill Clinton, when he ignored advice to "balance the ticket" and chose Al Gore, another moderate young southerner in 1992, is reputed to have explained: "I might die".
Where Mr Gbagbo, a southerner, was outgoing and jolly, the new president is at times seen as cold and technocratic.In this section Ever more embattled The king of Kong ReprintsMr Ouattara's fans say he is a pragmatic free-marketeer with a cool head and clear ideas.
The issue is particularly sensitive because Mr Jonathan, a southerner, is standing against a northern former army general, Muhammadu Buhari, who is tough on security.The race is the tightest in the history of Nigerian civil rule.
Twice winner of the game's most prestigious annual tournament, the World Series of Poker (WSOP), held in Las Vegas, the cowboy-hat-clad southerner affectionately known as Texas Dolly also wrote what many consider to be the bible of poker theory, "Super System: A Course in Power Poker".
A southerner has held the post for 11 of the past 14 years.Nigeria's finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, insists that the government recognises the north's need.
