There are presidential libraries, playhouses and botanical gardens. The Alabama Symphony Orchestra in Birmingham is scheduled to perform César Franck’s Symphony in D minor, as I write, and the Mississippi Symphony is scheduling six concerts for its Bravo Series (Mozart, Beethoven) in Jackson.
There is plenty to boast of in the Deep South, with its cultural pleasures, where the cities in particular are vibrant, the art galleries of Atlanta, the gourmet restaurants of Charleston, the cities with pro sports or great college teams. Like many writers who had left the South to find a life in the North, he often talked fondly about the region that had formed him. Once, I was talking Southern fiction with William Styron and he said, “I come from the High South”-he was from Virginia, and he was mildly boasting. The South is easy to find but hard to sort out, and it is full of paradoxes. Natchez, a historic cotton and sugar port on the Mississippi River, has seen its population fall by a third since 1960.
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