ACLU attorneys urged a federal judge in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom to temporarily block what they describe as a wave of ...

Like many Southern expressions, it’s all about delivery. If someone says it with a smile, it’s just playful disbelief. But if they say it with a raised eyebrow, you might actually want to hush.

Keep scrolling to see 25 Southern words and expressions you probably won't hear anywhere else. A Southerner will say "hold your horses" if things are going too fast.

Southern Living. Nonna's Southern Expressions. Posted: May 27, 2025 | Last updated: June 14, 2025. From “hissy fit” to “quit being ugly”, in this video, we decode some of the South’s ...

Not only Southern children—but adults as well—use the preface ma’am or sir when speaking to someone older or in authority. We really aren’t trying to be obsequious. Yes ma’am.

The following is an excerpt from "The Southerner's Handbook: A Guide to Living the Good Life" [HarperWave, $27.99]. Southern colloquial expressions (as my pappy used to say in his down-home way ...

Complimenting a Southern woman is a delicate thing. Best be careful or she may mistake it for the backhanded variety in which she is also well-versed. (Hint: the tone is key.) It’s a fine ...

In southern fishing towns you get expressions incorporating the wind and the water and the fishing economy. “It’s draped over occupations, the economy, lifestyle really,” says Gill.

Southern Expressions. Patrick Samway March 30, 2009. Flannery O'Connor (Wikimedia) Flannery by Brad Gooch. Little, Brown and Company. 464p $30. Robert Giroux, Flannery O’Connor’s editor at ...

Roy Wilder Jr. has been all over hell and half of Georgia looking for memorable Southern expressions. He keeps finding them, even in an age when television, interstates and air conditioning are all… ...

Southern Expressions is comprised of Cromartie’s oil and watercolor paintings depicting scenes of the rural southern United States and Arthur’s artistically lathe-turned vessels.

A new exhibition on loan from the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson is now open at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Jackson County Campus Fine Art Gallery, and will run through Feb. 22.