She did a little background check on "southernness" which turned up this jewel by Jerry Leath Mills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hee-Haw!] Reference

I think there's still a southernness, whatever that means.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with John Medlin, May 24, 1999. Interview I-0076. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Our southernness has lent a hand to many a literary devices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murf made the button, too!] Reference

Is there still a southernness to Wachovia, a southerness to the business in North Carolina in the region?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with John Medlin, May 24, 1999. Interview I-0076. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

To be honest, though, I've never felt Edwards was particularly sincere, even in 2004, but it may just be his southernness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feingold: Edwards Supporters "Are Being Taken In"] Reference

I had completely eradicated it from my speech but when I moved home, I guess I just inhaled all of this southernness and it just comes out!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

His remoteness, his southernness, something velvety and dark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Girl] Reference

There is indeed a single, simple, litmus-like test for the quality of southernness in literature, one easily formulated into a question to be asked of any literary text and whose answer may be taken as definitive, delimiting, and final.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hee-Haw!] Reference

Calisher’s father, born in 1861, possessed “a towering pride in his Jewishness and in his southernness” (Herself 59).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hortense Calisher.] Reference

I have similiar issues with my southernness, Lou.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lou Plugs Historic Birmingham] Reference