Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state. Gerald McRaney
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. Stephen Ambrose
If the Union is dissolved and the Government disrupted, I shall return to my native State and share the miseries of my people, and, save in defense will draw my sword on none. Robert E. Lee
Human learning is a very aggressive style in its native state. I am not sure why, though it is a very useful trait in an unstable, unpredictable living environment. John Medina
I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State --neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering. Nathaniel Hawthorne