Example sentences for: southerners

How can you use “southerners” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some people who were thus obsessed were so because, as Horwitz notes, "roughly half of modern-day white Southerners descended from Confederates, and one in four Southern men of military age died in [it]."

  • The only Southerners who want to blot it out are black Southerners, who wish that all the noise and symbolism would go away.

  • Southerners pinned the label on both the opportunistic and idealistic Northerners who packed their worldly possessions into "carpetbags" during Reconstruction and moved to Dixie to enter politics.

  • The Civil War arose because Northerners feared that a small Southern "Slave Power" had seized control of Washington, while Southerners were convinced the North was determined to destroy their way of life.

  • Such meetings, spontaneous and arranged, punctuate Horwitz's zigzag journey through the Old Confederacy, with stops at battlefields, museums, redneck bars, gatherings of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, an Afrocentric school, and the living rooms of countless affable Southerners.


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