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- noun Plural form of
Southerner .
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Examples
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The mass exodus that followed then separated white Southerners from the deeper and unresolved issues of the Civil Rights Movement and furnished the environment in which they grew increasingly comfortable with the gathering force of the counter-Reconstruction sweeping across not just the South but the nation as a whole.
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Obama has proven that the day’s of appeasing to the regressive Southerners is over.
No Clear Front-Runner for Republican Chairman - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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We, as in Southerners, need more books like this to spark conversation and get the humanity train a rollin’!
Southern Author Meme! ____Maggie 2008
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We, as in Southerners, need more books like this to spark conversation and get the humanity train a rollin’!
Archive 2008-06-01 ____Maggie 2008
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That ought to show Negro soldiers cannot cope with Southerners -- in other words, that they deserve to be just what and where they are.
The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960
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They had been taught by the negroes on the place to call the Southerners "rebel devils," and I feared for the result if they allowed their childish tongues to wag too freely.
As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur
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Now part of California lay south of the Missouri Compromise Line, so the Southerners were angry, and declared that California must be divided into two, and that the Southern part must come into the
This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917
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"The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States," announced
Senator North Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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He denounced the assassination of Lincoln as a crime to be abhorred by every American, discountenanced the idea of Southerners seeking refuge in foreign lands, scrupulously obeyed every regulation of the military authorities regarding paroled prisoners and exerted all the influence at his command to induce his friends to work with him for the reconciliation of the country.
On the Trail of Grant and Lee Frederick Trevor Hill 1898
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The Southerners were the conservative party, and had the letter of the Constitution on their side; the Northerners were the reformers, the innovators.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890
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