[Alberta's Child]

All arguments aside, I’ve always loved the irony of Southern writer Walker Percy, who made this great observation of the North during the height of the Civil Rights era of the 1960s (I paraphrase):

A hundred years ago, the people of the North fought an epic war to free the slaves. Now, they’re all fleeing to the suburbs to get away from them.”

[rockrr]

I like that. I’ve always liked, “We shoulda picked our own damned cotton”

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