Southern accents and stupidity

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

 From the NYT Book Review, 5/8/05, letter from Butch Trucks (of the
Allman Brothers Band), about a Rolling Stone story about the band
written by Grover Lewis:
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In Lewis's article, all the dialogue among members of our group
seemed to be taken directly from Faulkner.  We are from the South.
We did and still do have Southern accents.  We are not stupid.  The
people in the article were creations of Grover Lewis.  They did not
exist in reality.
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