"The South hasn't disappeared. If anything, it's become more Southern in a last-ditch effort to save itself. And the South that survives will last longer than the one that preceded it. It'll be harder and more durable than what came before. Why? Its been through fire. I'm talking about the long slow-burning fire, the original civil war and the industrialization that it spawned. I'm talking about the colonization of the South by northern entrepreneurs. I'm talking about the migration to the cities, the cholera epidemics, the floods. I'm talking about the wars that Southerners fought disproportionately in this century, the poverty they endured. I'm talking about our fall from Grace." - Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain