> The idea of having pride in the South has for a long time generally been associated with whiteness. “Southern pride” conjures images of Confederate flags and

> The idea of having pride in the South has for a long time generally been associated with whiteness. “Southern pride” conjures images of Confederate flags and a longing for a time when the states below the Mason-Dixon could own black people. But what about black Southerners? What do we have pride in? Growing up in Mississippi, I didn’t find any pride in my elementary school named after Jefferson Davis. I didn’t find pride in the Dixie flag fluttering above my head every time I drove through downtown Jackson. Growing up white in Atlanta I am so grateful for a southern pride orthogonal and antithetical to hateful slavery dominated, white "Southern pride". I'd still have pride in Atlanta without Outkast, but they really gave Atlanta and the south in general a new voice.