Red States

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or states:

“You can’t be a Red if you’re married to a civil servant.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

“I think those Southern writers [William Faulkner, Carson McCullers] have analyzed very carefully the buildup in the South of a special consciousness brought about by the self- condemnation resulting from slavery, the humiliation following the War Between the States and the hope, sometimes expressed timidly, for redemption.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)