There is a world of difference between remembering the past and refusing to see people outside of a historic and antiquated context. OP is doing to these rural

There is a world of difference between remembering the past and refusing to see people outside of a historic and antiquated context. OP is doing to these rural Mississippians what OP is accusing them of doing, and the article even mentions at the end that there was no problems. The only problems, ironically, are coming from others who are typecasting these southerners.