Annie Joy Williams
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Aug 27, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Atlantic
- Top 10K sites
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- Jul 28, 2026
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The Generational Difference in Southern Manners (opens the original)
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This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the southerner is the most mannerly person in America. Before any Yanks get defensive, I want to clarify that this does not necessarily make them the kindest group in America. As a young child in Tennessee, I learned that a “Bless your heart” to one’s face paired particularly well with a cutting remark behind closed doors.
The Most Beautiful Woman (opens the original)
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Growing up in Tennessee, I could hardly walk into a grocery store without hearing “Jolene” playing on the radio. My mom sang fragments of “9 to 5” as she cooked Hamburger Helper on school nights, after clocking out of work. At my babysitter’s house in the summer, where Country Music Television was our ambient noise, she’d shout, “Good golly, Miss Dolly!” every time a Dolly song came on (which was at least every 30 minutes). Dolly Parton was more of an institution than a star to Tennesseans. Her
The Girlboss Is Dead (opens the original)
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Whose side are you on? You have to choose—Alex or Alix—even though you don’t know what the fight is about. Even if you don’t even know who these women are. If the words “What is up, daddy gang?” mean nothing to you, a brief primer: Alex Cooper is the host of the podcast Call Her Daddy; Alix Earle is a TikToker and the founder of a skin-care line. They may be the two most talked-about women on the internet right now, and they’re in an argument, and no one knows why. That has offered people the fu
The Girlboss Is Dead (opens the original)
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What a ridiculous internet feud reveals about female ambition
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