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I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days.

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Harper LeeGo Set a Watchman

Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's ...

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The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and gro...

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It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it w...

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James McBride (writer)The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, ...

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Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, dri...

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It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social c...

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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The v...

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