Is Ernest J Gaines a southern author and why?

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I writing a research paper on why ernest J Gaines qualifies as a southern author. I need to show that race, gender and religion also civil war are reflected in his writings. Examples from books where these topics were reflected would be nice.
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"Ernest J. Gaines was born in 1933 on the River Lake plantation in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, the setting for most of his fiction; he was the fifth generation in his family to be born there. At the age of nine he was picking cotton in the plantation fields; the black quarter's school held classes only five or six months a year."

He was born in the South.
He is Writer in Residence at University of Southwestern Louisiana.
He has written about his experiences in the South.
I would say he qualifies as a Southern writer.
 
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