Successful con men are treated with considerable respect in the South. A good slice of the settler population of that region were men who’d been given a choice between being shipped off to the New...

Trees down south have a difference to them, a subtle, slinking movement, mile by mile- a gracefulness, a swagger. Lanky trees stretching out their wiry thin, Spanish moss-covered branches, moss that sways and beckons …...

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.

We don’t have unions in South Carolina because we don’t need unions in South Carolina.