Look Away Dixieland: A Carpetbagger's Great-Grandson Travels Highway 84 in Search of the Shack-up-on-Cinder-Blocks, Confederate-Flag-Waving, Squirrel-Hunting, Boiled-Peanuts, Deep-Drawl, Don't-Stop-the-Car-Here South

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Illustrations Entirety of U.S. Highway 84 from I-95 in Georgia to Pagosa Springs, Colorado 5 Cartograph of 2008 U.S. presidential election 9 Carpetbagger cartoon by Thomas Nast, 1872 18 The Cunning Fox Which Joins the Coon, 1873 18 Marshall Harvey Twitchell as American consul 21 Northwest Louisiana parish boundaries in late 1870 23 State historical marker in Colfax 26 Gathering the Dead and Wounded in Colfax, 1873 29 “Note from a True Friend” 31 In the Swamp, lithograph by H. L. Stephens, c. 1863 48 Runaway slave hiding in a swamp 48 Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia, 1888 48 The Old Ruskin Church, Ruskin, Georgia 52 Arrival of refugees from the Ruskin Commonwealth, 1899 55 Monument to the boll weevil in Enterprise, Alabama 81 Gee’s Bend quilts in the 2006 “American Treasures” stamp series 83 Collage, c. 2008, by Frankie Jean Lewis 124 Riverboat cannon used in the Colfax massacre 143 Obelisk memorializing heroes “fighting for white supremacy,” 1921, Grant Parish 145 Note from the “Goggle-eyed man” 161 This page intentionally left blank Look Away, Dixieland This page intentionally left blank ...