Any person born in the South by definition lives life with conflicted feelings. It is impossible to live here, to breath the air, without noticing the difference in culture. People treat strangers like family in the South.
Family is paramount in the South.
Just about everyone goes to church on Sundays in the South. Yet here, there are thoughts that are never spoken only felt. Most of all, the South is about the past. Try as people might, they cannot escape its grasp. In a victory for the Old South, the state of Mississippi voted Tuesday by a two-thirds majority to keep the Confederate battle cross on the state flag.