Race as Region, Region as Race: How Black and White Southerners Understand Their Regional Identities

''You''ve never been black, have you? No, if you''d been black, you wouldn''t ask no silly-ass question like that.''"

This article appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.

Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill''s Center for the Study of the American South.