Although a native Southerner, Mr. Alexander has yet to prove more popular in the South than in the rest of the country.

As a native Southerner, I take a certain pleasure in tales of Northern inefficiency, even if it is at my expense.

The whites, mostly native Southerners, have been forced to confront their racial assumptions and cede some control over church governance and liturgy.

And folks think we native Southerners are the eccentric ones.

Mr. Ivey, 53, is not a native Southerner, having grown up in a small town in Michigan.

Sonya Brandon, in spite of her Northern connections, was a native Southerner and still accepted by her friends.

For many older, native Southerners, most of childhood was dreamed outdoors.

And while they are predominantly Republican, the more than 1 million migrants who flood into the region each year tend to be less conservative than native white Southerners.

A curious assortment of native Southerners thus became eligible to participate in Radical Reconstruction.

Although he tries to pass himself off as a native Southerner, he later reveals he was born and raised in New Jersey.