Example sentences for: southerners

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

  • For the purposes of this discussion, though, Chatterbox will accept Reed's premise that Texans are southerners.

  • 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.

  • If blacks and whites, Northerners and Southerners, eventually men and women, could respect each other as Americans participating in the same national drama, they would lay a foundation for affirming their mutual equality.

  • White Southerners became obsessed with drawing an impossible line that would preserve white "racial purity"--another way of referring to white political dominance.

  • 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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