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doi:10.5744/florida/9780813036038.002.0008

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I have spent the past two decades living in Cincinnati, a place that is neither East nor West, North nor South. People living elsewhere position Cincinnati in ways I find fascinating. My relatives in the South think I live in the boundary waters close to the Canadian border; friends in the East put Cincinnati in the same geographical category as Kansas, Nebraska, and Idaho. My cousins in California refer to me as living “back East.” And colleagues in Cleveland know that Cincinnati is a southern city—why else would you be able to get good barbeque and a glass of sweet tea there?

The division of the United States into North and South has shaped my own life. My parents, a self-supporting southern belle from the Deep South and the son of dairy farmers from Wisconsin, met in Atlanta during World War II. They married after the war and began moving around the country, returning to Atlanta twenty years later. By the time I was eleven years old I had lived in Wisconsin, Washington, D.C., Iowa City, Seattle, and twice in Kansas City. We moved from there to Atlanta the year I turned sixteen. Going south because of my father's work, we entered a region in the throes of change. From the streets of Atlanta to the small towns of Waynesboro, Hephzibah, and West Point, Georgia, the civil rights movement was redressing the boundaries between black and white, seeking justice long overdue, and, in Biblical terms, making “the crooked places straight,” “break[ing] in pieces the gates of brass and cut[ting] asunder the bars of iron.” Social justice certainly had not been achieved by the mid-1960s and few of the crooked places had been straightened, but the society my white relatives had known all their lives was changing in unmistakable ways.

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