The Nation: The South A Show-Me Attitude

From Atlanta Bureau Chief Rudolph Ranch:

Gene Hudson's 500-acre farm in Warm Springs was one of the few places in Georgia where most of the talk was not about Jimmy Carter. Roughly 125 men had gathered at the farm on a chilly night for the monthly meeting of the Chitlin' Club, founded in 1936. Between liberal swigs of bourbon and peach moonshine, the hardy souls consumed 200 lbs. of boiled hog intestines, which smelled a lot like a thousand dirty socks, and talked mostly of their bygone feats of athletic prowess. Said Hudson: "Most...

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