Example sentences for: applebome

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  • "A perpetual debate goes on about how much of the real South is left," Peter Applebome observes near the start of his own Southern tour.

  • In his earnest efforts to give the South a fair shake, Applebome, a native Long Islander now raising a family in Georgia, begins by puncturing Northern stereotypes and sanctimony about the South.

  • Applebome devotes a chapter to Newt Gingrich's district in Cobb County, Ga., which he says epitomizes the national trend towards suburban, white-flight, Christian-right conservatism.

  • Applebome's South is economically vibrant, politically and culturally self-confident, and racially more integrated than the rest of America.

  • Nowhere is this book's love/hate affair with the South more obvious than at the end, when Applebome profiles Lewis Grizzard, the Georgia humorist and newspaper columnist who asked that his ashes be spread on the 50 yard line of the Georgia Bulldogs' stadium.


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