Episode 119 || The Politics of Being Southern

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Chris is pursuing that ever-elusive PhD, so this week, Annie interviewed Sarah Holland from the Pantsuit Politics podcast. In addition to being the left-leaning cohost of Pantsuit Politics, Sarah is a city commissioner from Paducah, Kentucky, and she's a lifelong southerner. Annie and Sarah chatted about what "life in the South" really entails, including the hard truth about where Southern maker culture really comes from and Sarah's obsession with Designing Women. Annie and Sarah mentioned: + the Southern Foodways Alliance + the Whitney Plantation + Designing Women, "Southerns Do NOT Eat Dirt" + Classics Sarah's never read but wish she has: Don Quixote and War and Peace + Podcasts Sarah listens to: Pod Save America; The Weeds; This American Life; On Being; Death, Sex, & Money; Freakonomics; Hidden Brain + Tara Brach's meditations + Indigo Girl's "Southland in the Springtime" + Sarah's currently reading: Tales of Titans, East of Eden, and Talent Code

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 119 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.
0:10.4	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:16.6	And I'm missing Chris. He is in and out of the shop a couple of times this summer, including a couple of times this month, doing all kinds of academic things. And so I am going to record a few episodes solo. So don't worry, Chris has not gone forever. He is just doing things that will help him have some really important letters after his name.
0:38.5	So that is more important, I think, than from the front porch, sadly.
0:42.4	So today I've got a really special and different kind of episode.
0:46.8	It's a little less literary, but have no fear, because I partnered with Sarah Holland,
0:53.1	the host, one of the hosts of the popular political
0:57.3	podcast, Pantsuit Politics. Pantsuit Politics is one of my weekly must listen to podcasts,
1:04.9	and I was thrilled to partner with them and create two special episodes.
1:11.1	So the episode you'll be listening to today features Sarah Holland,
1:15.0	and we're going to talk about the politics of being Southern.
1:18.6	And then in a couple of weeks, you will find an episode on Pantsuit Politics
1:22.7	all about reading fiction and the importance of reading fiction in establishing nuance. So it's all
1:29.4	about empathy and we named different book titles. I went through like some of my favorite
1:35.4	recent fiction reads that kind of helped me expand my views on things. And so this is going to be
1:41.8	less literary. It's going to be more political. And then their episode is
1:45.1	going to be less political, more literary. So we kind of switched it up a little bit, hopefully,
1:49.5	so we can have a few new listeners as well. So if you have hopped over from Pantsuit Politics,
1:54.3	welcome. We normally have conversations on books, small business, and life in the South. And to me,
2:00.0	this conversation with Sarah completely
2:01.7	falls under that last category. We talked about where the concept of the Southern Maker really
2:07.4	came from, why designing women is more than just a sitcom, and what really defines a southerner.
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