And they rallied with him as a slow-witted Southerner in the 1994 runaway hit Forrest Gump.
The last Democrat to carry North Carolina was Jimmy Carter, a Southerner, in 1976.
Because I am a southerner, I am going to quote from the Good Book.
In 2000 Al Gore, despite being a southerner himself, failed to win any southern states.
Yet the current president, a conservative southerner himself, has tended to exaggerate the split.
Shortly after strutting about to "Go Colonel, Go Colonel" chants, the animated southerner fell from America's favor.
John Kerry of Massachusetts -- who now has won 12 Democratic contests -- and fellow Southerner Sen.
One southerner in five is thought to have a relation in the North.
JMP's candidate, Faisal bin Shamlan, is a liberal-leaning southerner, the bulk of its strength comes from the Islah or Reform Party.
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Mr Edwards is a southerner, but unlikely to move any southern states out of Mr Bush's camp in the presidential contest.
When he arrived in Turin, in 1953, the 25-year-old southerner had to win the confidence of northern Italians wary of fast-talking Neapolitans.
It's often said that a real Southerner can "claim kin" with anyone.
When it comes to reserving activities to holders of professional qualifications, Germany acts more like a stodgy southerner than a nimble northerner.
Clinton was a Southerner and part of a new generation of Democrats.
At the height of the civil-rights movement, many readers were furious at the idea of a white Southerner writing as a black slave rebel.
One is Mark Warner , the governor of Virginia (another southerner) who has raised taxes and closed the state-budget deficit with the help of Republicans.
Southerner Lyndon Johnson used his considerable skills to champion civil rights.
Rep. Bob Etheridge, a freshman Democrat from a Republican-leaning district in North Carolina, is a good example of a vulnerable "Blue Dog Democrat, " a moderate Southerner.
Politically, he stood on the middle ground: fundamentally conservative (supporting the Nicaraguan contras, school prayer and guns) but bravely outspoken, especially as a southerner, on civil rights.
Craig Brewer(ph), a southerner who sort of takes, I think, a lot of the ethos, this kind of stuff we see in short stories by Flannery O'Connor.
But two middle-class kids from Boulder, Colorado, one Asian and one Latino, might have far more in common than either would with, say, a poor white southerner.
When Bill Clinton named Al Gore, a fellow baby boomer, a fellow southerner - I mean, that was against conventional wisdom, but I think it was very effective.
The bride's father is from New Zealand, and the groom is a sixth generation Southerner, so the couple wanted to honor each of their cultures without alienating anyone.
Among them: a homosexual AIDS victim in the 1993 tearjerker Philadelphia, a slow-talking Southerner in the 1994 hit Forrest Gump and a heroic captain in 1998's Saving Private Ryan.
Despite being a southerner himself, Mr Hadi is disliked for his commanding role in a 1994 war that saw the north violently crush a bid for renewed southern independence.
Since independence from Britain in 1960, Nigeria has known only one reasonably successful election, in 1979, when Shehu Shagari, a little-known northern politician, defeated the veteran southerner Obafemi Awolowo.
Walter Mondale appealed to traditional Democrats such as organized labor and African-Americans who were distrustful of Jimmy Carter, an unknown Southerner who did not seem sympathetic to the party's core ideas.
At the Manhattan headquarters of the IRS, visitors were greeted at the door by a well-bred Southerner, district director Charles Baugh, who did everything he could to make them feel at home.
Virginia-born Lady Astor was on hand for these ceremonies, calling Americans "my compatriots" and joking with a Southerner from Georgia, Private Billy Harrison, about their superiority to "damn Yankees" from New York.
As they did in 2004, Edwards' supporters point out that as a Southerner, Edwards can make inroads in a region that produced the last three Democratic presidents (Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton).
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