This week i, the perfect southern woman in training, am mourning the death of one of my favorite southern women: Dixie Carter.  Perhaps it is more Julia Sugarbaker who is my favorite southern woman than it is Dixie Carter.  But being a young American female trained by television to recognize fictional characters and not actual living personalities, i consider that the two are one, despite research informing me otherwise about their politics.   

Below is just one glorious example of Ms. Sugarbaker; the very model of a passionate, strong, poised, God-fearing, lycra-wearing Southerner; mater-of-factly giving an ignoramus a boot in the fanny.  This woman merits all praise.