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HARD TRUTH

by Sally Herrin
by Sally Herrin

Averted: A Slingshot Dictatorship

Hard Truth #1 being metaphorical. My family moved from Two years later I was due to gradu-

The South has risen again. As far as Dixie the Great Lakes region in 1963 to Atlanta. ate and return to the South to marry my
childhood sweetheart and get my doctorate
I was twelve then and I never lived outside
is concerned the Civil War isn’t over. On the (I include Southern Indiana for cause) the at the University of North Carolina, where
contrary, the country music cohort through South until 1976, when I washed up in Doris Betts and James Dickey would have
talk radio and Murdoch media have fash- Lincoln, Nebraska driving northwest on promoted my development and success. In-
ioned themselves a culture and a people in Highway 2, over the Cheney ridge, before stead, like Mari Sandoz before me, I made
diaspora. Monuments and flags? Respect me Salt Valley and the Capitol bleaching in an unsuitable marriage to the handsomest
for history, my Aunt Eldrane! The Confeder- the August afternoon. “Wow. What a beat cowboy in Cherry County.
ate flag means today what it always meant. little prairie town,” I thought. “Good thing I’m In so doing I placed myself beyond
The South is another country. I am not not going to spend the rest of my life here.” saving by the Childhood Sweetheart forever

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