"It’s very complicated to be from the South. It’s a culture that begs to be celebrated for its values, and yet how do we reconcile wholesome Americana and slavery? It’s a culture that longs for the rights to its nostalgia, for a better time, and yet the rest of the country believes that it’s now that’s the better time. We Northerners like to take a lot of credit for fighting to free slaves instead of fighting to keep them, but there isn’t an innocent region of the country, is there? The problem is, we are all reflexively nostalgic, and how are you supposed to long for something that should never have existed?"