We Of The South Remember: Corsicana, Texas; Raymond, Mississippi

(The wind blows where it will, and sometimes when writing the daimon will push you in an unexpected direction, which shows that outlines and plans are best written, then discarded. Chapter III “grew in the telling”; there’s now a Chapter IV, about the “dislocation” of the mid-17^th century. Something happened then; a timeline shift, like now. So it struck me to do an occasional set of posts like this one, which seems appropriate for the season.)

The Republicans used the heartbreaking murder of black Southerners by white Southerner Dylann Roof in Charleston, South Carolina to ally with the Democrats in their long-awaited attack on the memory of the Western people. Perhaps they thought that by throwing the South to the wolves, they’d save their own hides. So Nimarata Haley, then the governor of South Carolina, courageously (of course) removed the Confederate battle flag from where it flew before the statehouse. “That’s not who we are.”