This is a thing that exists.
In the Raleigh/Durham airport waiting to fly back to LA, I spotted this at a magazine stand:
Yup, it’s a magazine called Garden and Gun, and it caters to “the New South”, where gardens, guns, expensive bourbon, and high thread-count sheets live in harmony. From the website:
Garden & Gun is a Southern lifestyle magazine that’s all about the magic of the new South – the sporting culture, the food, the music, the art, the literature, the people, and the ideas. It espouses a strong conservation ethic that grows out of its connection to the land, and it reveals the beauty of the South.
I think basically what they’re trying to say is that they’re not into NASCAR and they’re not racist anymore. I didn’t buy the mag, and I have a hard time buying this “new South” lifestyle they’re marketing. People always want to romanticize the South and talk about cudzoo and mint juleps and big hats and syrupy accents, but mostly it rings false. The beauty of the South is in nature walks and floating in a lake, not eating deconstructed BBQ at some overpriced “authentic” bistro.
monkeearmada said,
June 23, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Amen sister
The Florida Blogger said,
June 23, 2010 at 5:26 pm
I wonder why this is true. Why do people want to change the South? Is it the planned communities? Is it the need to have things planned and controlled? I’m for the South that is quirky, beautiful, beachy, rocky, flat, redneck, good people of all color, four wheel drives, and great bbq!