America is a transplanted place. Families split and people travel 1,000 miles for a job, but the South is not yet like that. People live for three or four generations in the same town, even the same house.

I was lucky enough to be raised by a man of great integrity and rectitude. That said, he was also human and had his secret sins, as we all do.

A large percentage of my father's patients were African-American.

The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.