WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — Inside his conference room at Piggie Park headquarters, beneath the faded portraits of Confederate generals, South Carolina's deposed barbecue king is in no mood for reconciliation. Maurice Bessinger, 72 and unbowed, leans forward in his yellow Maurice's BBQ shirt and calls the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) a "terrorist group." He says there is evidence that slaves enjoyed life in the South. He makes very clear that, in his mind, white Southerners were the best friends blacks have had — the best friends, he says, "in the history of the world." A...