Name your favorite American from the south...

[Tom_Foolery]

Mine is Ava Gardner.

[Nevernose]

1. Ann Richards

Also, my parents.

[CanuckAmok]

2. The guy who fell in love with Fred Flintstone's Mother-in-Law

tiny guy with a big stetson and a bi-i-i-i-g rock car.

on edit: Melvin J. Muchrock was his name.

[swag]

3. whoops

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Hunter S Thompson.

Born in Louisville, Kentucky.

[Nevernose]

5. No shit?

He's already my favorite author. Now I'm gonna have to nominate him for sainthood.

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. Yep...

he went to the same high school as my grandfather (about 14 years later, though).

On edit: This should've been reply to #5 (I fucked up, somehow)

[achtung_circus]

6. Lewis Grizzard,

now deceased columnist and humour author who wrot a column for the (I believe) Atlanta Constitution? and a series of some of the funniest books I've read.

ie Shoot Low, Boys, They're Riding Shetland Ponies
Don't Bend Over in the Garden, Granny, You Know them Taters Got Eyes
Elvis is Dead (and I'm not feeling so well myself)

[stanwyck]

20. really?

Lewis was such a chauvanist and so derivative of Mike Royko with his colorful character stories.

[swag]

8. Harper Lee

[Nevernose]

9. Oooohhhhhh, good one.

[GainesT1958]

10. For politicians...

(Tie) Terry Sanford, and Jimmy Carter!:D

For non-elected-officials, Madeline and Wes Townsend (my parents)!:7

:kick:

B-)

[Zomby Woof]

11. Howlin' Wolf

Chester Arthur Burnett, born June 10, 1910 in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

[playahata1]

26. Don't forget that other great bluesman, from Indianola, Mississippi:

B.B. KING.

Also, The Godfather of Soul himself: JAMES BROWN. (Born in Barnwell, South Carolina.)

[Zomby Woof]

37. I think 90% of the blues musicians are from there

Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield), John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, and on and on... that delta was fertile ground in more ways that one.

[GOPisEvil]

12. Jimmy Carter

[jdonaldball]

13. Pablo Neruda

a bit too far south, but so what?

[Catch22Dem]

14. I have to go with Carter as well

Good man.

[DivinBreuvage]

15. Jefferson Davis

Naw, not really. My vote goes to General George Thomas of Virginia, who remained loyal to the Union when the Civil War came. He saved the Federal army from disaster at the battle of Chickamauga and nearly annihilated a Confederate army at Nashville in 1864. Unfortunately for his place in history he was a painfully modest, unassuming man and never got proper credit for his accomplishments. Grant was actually planning to remove him from command on the eve of his great victory at Nashville.

On edit: Jefferson Davis was infinitely more intelligent and honorable than George Bush or any other living Conservative I can think of, and he took his duty as a public official very seriously. I think it would be wonderful if we could bring him back from the dead to replace Trent Lott. They stand for about the same thing, but at least Jeff. Davis had class. And good hair.

[SarahB]

16. My dad.

Otherwise I wouldn't be here. He grew up in Louisiana and Arkansas. :D

Edit: spelling

[supernova]

17. Me!

I'm the bestest Southerner there is. :D

[Reverend_Smitty]

18. Bill Clinton

:)

[Rowdyboy]

19. Thomas Harris, author of "Silence of the Lambs", "Red Dragon",

and "Hannibal". Born in Tennessee, lives in Mississippi.

[Flaxbee]

21. First, my husband, from South Carolina...

second, Mark Twain, from Florida, Mississippi.

[playahata1]

24. Mark Twain was from Florida, MISSOURI.

http://www.underthesun.cc/Classics/Twain

[Flaxbee]

30. oops... got carried away by the M-I-S-S- part and just

...kept on going! ;-)

[lpbk2713]

22. Shelby Foote

http://www.virginia.edu/history/courses/courses.old/hius323/foote.html

[playahata1]

23. Muhammad Ali

Martin Luther King
Hank Aaron
Alice Walker
Jimmy Carter
Arthur Ashe
Fannie Lou Hamer
Angela Davis
Ella Baker
Bernice Johnson Reagon

Just to name a few....

[flamingyouth]

25. Carson McCullers

And Flannery O'Connor

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

27. Phil Hill - from Florida

http://www.philhill.com/

[mitchum]

28. My dad, Howlin' Wolf, Tennessee Williams and T. Jefferson

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

29. Justin Wilson

I guaronteee

[Rowdyboy]

31. That s very good one!

He taught me how to make gumbo (through the miracle of television). I use his recipe to this day.

[rucky]

32. Eudora Welty n/t

[dbt]

33. John R. Cash!

He was The King Of Rock And Roll.

:bounce:
dbt

[retread]

34. Stetson Kennedy

*

[Rhiannon12866]

35. Mine is Jimmy Carter.

No surprise here. He is a hero of mine, a great American.:-)

[sasquatch]

36. Mine's a tie between Johnny Cash, Jim Hightower, and Muddy Waters

with honorable mention given to Lead Belly.

[MrScorpio]

38. I'll pick all of the above and add

Gore Vidal from TN

[bobthedrummer]

39. Muddy Waters.

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

40. That tall blonde woman from Dallas that I had a nasty

fling with over a long weekend back in 1989.

and I mean "nasty" in the best sense of the word...

Sigh...

RL

[Ysabel]

41. julian bond...n/t...

[Norbert]

42. Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Harper Lee, Oliver Hardy, Ray Charles

There is just too many to name.



Oh Yeah! Stan Laurel is from the South too. South of London, that is.

[VelmaD]

43. Why VelmaD of course...

:)

born and raised in Greenville, TX.

Followed closely by VelmaD's parents, Harper Lee, and Barbara Jordan.