Dirty Boots: Y’all come back now, y’hear?

Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of the 21st century. Brain drain is massive problem in most of the Deep South, and the phenomenon is not new. When my friends and I were finishing school in the 1990s, the inarguable sentiment among us was that leaving Montgomery, Alabama was the only viable option for a good life. And many of us acted upon that assumption. (Of course, I didn’t, but that’s another… Read more Dirty Boots: Y’all come back now, y’hear? →