It's a triumph for the biracial South.

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The Southern pattern was that every farm or plantation would have their family cemetery.

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I think that what happened at Ole Miss 40 years ago can be a burden. But it should also be a responsibility -- a special responsibility to take a leadership role in studying race relations and promoting racial reconciliation and remembering our past to good effect.

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It must be something deep in our DNA. Even though the South has changed so much, it's still passed on from one generation to the next.

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People in, say, Georgia aren't sitting on the front porches singing anymore. They're inside in the air-conditioning, watching cable like everybody else.

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