A review by yungoctavio
The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi by Richard Grant

5.0

Entertaining as hell! About Natchez, Mississippi - a place where every year there is a town-wide celebration where people dress up in confederate army uniforms and antebellum dresses... yet they elected a Black gay man as mayor and (white) people are genuinely convinced they were progressive and not racist. It also went into the complexities of how to tell history in a way that doesn't hide its ugly side, especially when tourism is so embedded in the local economy. An insightful view into the contradictions of racism in America. There are tons of places like Natchez across the country.