A biography for John Shelton Reedhasn’t been written yet.
“I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.”
“If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.”
“I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.”