President Barack Obama, despite appointing no Southerners to his Cabinet, twice today declared, “I love the South.”
The comment came during a roundtable with regional reporters at the White House.
“You guys feeling neglected?” Obama joked with a reporter from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, when asked about the administration’s regional tilt away from the South.
“We thought a lot about finding the very best people for the jobs and haven’t been thinking with great intensity about regionalism,” Obama said. “Except for food, sports teams and weather, we’re one country.”
“I love the South,” he said.
“If you’ve got some great Southerners who want to work for us, let me know, because I love the South.”
Obama cited press secretary Robert Gibbs as an example of Southern representation in the White House. Gibbs is a native of Auburn, Ala., and was graduated from North Carolina State University.
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