southernern.

1817 Analectic Mag. (Philadelphia) July 16 We have scarcely ever conversed with a Southerner, who did not express a sincere regret, at the necessity of keeping up our system of slavery.

1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. xiii There's so many rich southerners and strangers there that have more money than wit.

1862 J. Spence Amer. 261 From his youth, the Southerner is habituated to command others.

1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 65 The Southerners had every guaranty they could desire that they should not be interfered with at home.

1942 M. Mitchell Let. 23 July in Gone with the Wind Lett. (1986) 359 I believe that we Southerners could write the truth about the ante-bellum South,..until Gabriel blows his trump—and everyone would go on believing in the Hollywood version.

1984 S. Terkel Good War (1985) i. v. 154 I found the most sympathetic white men in the army were actually southerners.

2004 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 19 Dec. 21/3 The rattlesnake flag represented the ornery get-out-of-my-face liberty that remains particularly strong among Southerners.

1833 J. H. Newman Let. 17 Apr. (1891) I. 394 I have letters of introduction to Messina, Catania... Have I told you of the inconsistencies of these Southerners?

1875 J. H. Bennet Winter & Spring Mediterranean (ed. 5) xii. 408 Vividness in colour probably becomes an actual want to southerners.

1913 J. Service Memorables Robin Cummell 225 Dichty water is the affected fine talk of a Scotchman who would be thought a Southerner.

1917 M. E. Durham in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 387 Though the Northerner has been subjected to Slav influence and the Southerner to Greek, yet an Albanian is an Albanian ‘for a' that’.

1975 A. Deyell My Shetland 12 A few townsfolk have tried to ape the southerner, and ‘sooth-moothers’ sometimes think themselves superior.

2006 Chatelaine Feb. 48/3 Nunavummiut [sc. people from Nunavut] should enjoy the same rights and benefits as southerners.

1873 Graphic 29 Nov. 519/3 The question decided which is the better sculler of the two or the better man, the Northerner or the Southerner.

1886 T. L. Kington-Oliphant New Eng. I. 74 The Southerner, on entering Leeds, still reads the old Northern names of Kirkgate and Briggate on two great thoroughfares.

1907 Times 15 Apr. 11/2 There was scarcely a detail in which the northerners were not on the afternoon's play superior to the more famous southerners.

1980 J. Wainwright Dominoes v. 120 He was a Northerner. He carried an inbuilt distrust of Southerners.

1987 E. North Worldly Goods (1988) v. 54 If you are a southerner in Yorkshire, you never quite forget it.

2003 Front June 24/4 Northerners sink more pints than Southerners.