My Mom, Betsy Oppenneer, was a red-headed Southern Belle from Sautee Nacoochee, GA. She and Dad moved around a lot eventually settling in New Hampshire. Well, you can take a girl out of the south, but you can’t take the South out of the girl. Here’s a note I left her while editing her cookbook The Bread Book circa 1993…
“Personal note from me. Do you realize that you always capitalize South but never North or East? Are you trying to declare the South’s supremacy?”