After visiting the region, he said the Northern Alliance had made no effort to marginalise southern Pushtuns and that southerners (and Pakistan) acknowledged that the Alliance would be part of a future government.
And southerners are unusually observant: Utah is the only non-southern state where church attendance is as high as in Dixie.When piety is grafted on to a small-government political philosophy 57% of southerners think the government does "too much" and only 37% think it should do more, according to Gallup it explains much of why the South remains different.
Solving Europe's "most pressing" problem demands a bolder approach to boost growth in southern Europe as well as more money to help the southerners revamp their labour markets.
According to international aid groups, the civil war, in which northern Arabs, who rule the country, are opposed by southern rebels, has claimed, directly or indirectly, the lives of 2m southerners and displaced over 4m.Besides the horrors common to all wars, however, the conflict in Sudan has made another kind of casualty: thousands of southern women and children abducted and turned into slaves.
"Kennedy had no great understanding of the impatience of African Americans or the intransigence of white southerners, while Johnson – from Texas – understood both," says Tony Badger, professor of American history at Cambridge.
Then I remembered that Loach's Kes had its soundtrack dubbed to make it more comprehensible to soft southerners - in England, not in Dixie.
"Southerners have as much right to be proud of their heritage as anybody else".
I know some Southerners and every once in a while a sentence comes out that you wouldn't think could be spoken in 1998.
For others, tens of millions of southerners would have been better off without it.
No viewer of Django Unchained of any ethnicity would willingly identify with the white Southerners on offer, sadists or else morons such as the proto-Ku Klux Klan members quarelling about the poor sightlines offered by the eyeholes cut in their hoods.
How could they go and join forces with those dirty southerners?
