Jennie Clarkson
Event Planner
“It was pretty weird. You’d have thought they had won or something.”
Harold Ledbetter
Dry Cleaning Company Owner
“I drove down for it and it was fantastic. I think now they should dig up all the Confederate soldiers and rebury “em — just to remind people, you know?”
Mae Richards Wright
Administrative Assistant
“Those people are crazy. I mean crazy. You won’t catch me going down there.”
Craig P. Haigler
Stockbroker
“It’s touching that so many people still care about eight poor shmucks who died defending our right to own other human beings. I could just cry. No, really.”
This article appears in Apr 21-27, 2004.
