I can relate. I read a slave narrative to my class the other day. It was particularly painful to me because it took place in the town where I grew up, which was too small to have a high school or a post office.
There are sad chapters of history for every location, but recounting all of those may be opening a pandora's box. Eventually, I had to come to a place where I recognized those dark chapters as well as some really positive things that Southerners have done.
Plus, with the civil rights era of the 60's the former South is essentially gone.
It just lives in books now.
