Navigating Southern Stereotypes with ‘The Bitter Southerner’

WUGA | By Chris Shupe

Published March 19, 2019 at 4:23 PM EDT

Having a Southern accent can often times come with some challenges, along with some unfair stereotypes. Listen below as WUGA’s Program Director and Morning Edition voice Chris Shupe speaks with Chuck Reece of The Bitter Southerner about what he has encountered, and why he feels the need to perhaps better define what it means to be Southern.

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Chris Shupe was the Program Director of WUGA from 2014-2022. Shupe may be best known as The Athens King, a tribute to Elvis Presley, which often included an 8 piece show band! After two years as a part-time announcer, Chris Shupe joined WUGA full time as the station’s Morning Edition Host and Assistant Operations Director. He was later promoted to PD in 2014.

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