“Ed Talley’s comments to the Editors [in the Fall 2001 ‘Letters to the Editors,’ under the heading ‘Not Your Oxford American’] reminded me of a much more serious difference between Southern Cultures and Oxford American. Oxford American‘s editor, Marc Smirnoff, uses a style principle that ‘Southern’ and ‘Southerner’ are always capitalized. Though he may be a Yankee, at least Mr. Smirnoff leads Oxford American with due respect to the South and its peoples and its cultures.”