Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
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In none of those places did I feel like such an outsider, or have such trouble with basic communication.
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Outsiders often see it as a paradox, that such a poor, conservative, religious state should also have such a rich literary tradition, but it makes sense to Mississippians.
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“There’s a secret to living here,” she said. “Compartmentalize, compartmentalize, and then compartmentalize some more.
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It was all so familiar from Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean: the collapsing infrastructure, the intermittent electricity supply, the air of lassitude and disorganization, the ancient forms.
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I often forgot how hierarchical the
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South is compared to the egalitarian West,
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woods, murky bodies of water, and old rusting cotton gins, with the telephone poles listing slightly by the side of the road.