“The ‘Mason-Dixon Line’ was to me an unscalable wall of separation between the socially sophisticated and open-minded North and the morally degenerate and bigoted South. It was a line I never wanted to cross. However, about fourteen years ago, I had a ‘great awakening.’”

Read more: In the Land of Cotton: An Immigrant to Dixie Examines the “Lost Cause”, by Greg Loren Durand.

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