SOUTHERN FRIED THURSDAY

"Southerners have a natural graciousness. The South will ensure hospitality and civility flourish in the 21st century as it has in centuries past."

-Jim Henderson (executive with Dallas based Wyndham Hotels)

"The South is the future. It's the future right now...It will teach people to be much kinder to each other and more forgiving and more easygoing and more neighborly and simply more forbearing and genuely more concerned about other people."

-James Dickey

"I think paradoxically the South is known for its violence, a good bit of violence, but at the same time there is a certain tolerance and civility toward people and their opinions."

-Walker Percy