Example sentences for: southerners

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

  • 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.

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

  • The strength of Horwitz's book lies in his gift for fleshing them out through precisely rendered encounters with Southerners of all walks and all colors, united only by the common Southern compulsion to answer a question with a story.

  • 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.

  • I think he is funning with you, as the Southerners say, when he tells friends the trophy will reside in the bed with the two of you.


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