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“We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.”

People Country School Church Support Car Punishment Racing Hunts Grit Baptists Scotch Southerner Bourbon Car Racing Corporal Punishment Possums Stock Car Racing

Book:My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

Source: My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

“Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.”

Country Hours Middle Car Miles Officers Thick Middle Of The Road Wild Ride

Author:Amy Weber

“I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.”

Country Car Sunday Aston Martin

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We want what we want, and we want it now. Easy credit. Fast food. A straight shot down the interstate from point A to point B. The endless highway is crowded with the kinds of cars large enough to take a mountain pass in high snow. Instead they are used to take children from soccer practice to Pizza Hut. In the process they burn fuel like there's no tomorrow. Tomorrow's coming.”

“The Ford Falcon holds the proud title of Slowest Car Ever Built. In certain areas of the country you can go to a stoplight and find Falcon drivers who pressed down on their accelerators in 1963 and are still waiting for their cars to move.”

Stills Country Moving Certain Waiting Car Proud Built Areas Titles Drivers Falcon

Book:Dave Barry Talks Back

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”

Art Real Country Artist Waiting Path Car Forgotten Track Glorious Canvas Obedient

Author:A. Y. Jackson

“The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.”

Way Children Country Use Problem Law Car Paid Solve Traffic Highways Scarce Playgrounds Boulevard

Author:Will Rogers

“Proper driving etiquette demands that you basically get close enough to a car in front of you at a busy intersection that it would mean that in certain third-world countries, or South Carolina, you would have to get married.”

Source: Rude Bitches Make Me Tired: Slightly Profane and Entirely Logical Answers to Modern Etiquette Dilemmas

“We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.”