Troy Place is a sedate cul-de-sac in a newly desirable suburb of Raleigh, . The sort of neighbourhood where people stop to make small talk while walking their dogs and picking up the post. It used to be a predominantly white area, but times have changed in the South, and these days it’s very mixed.One long-standing resident is a middle-aged divorcee of African-American heritage who works for a big pharmaceutical printing firm. Until recently he’d exchange a few words with the elderly white lady two doors away, who sat on the porch in her wheelchair. She was sometimes a little grumpy, he says, but she seemed OK.When I told him about her past life in the cotton-belt, he was momentarily dumbstruck. Had he known about it, would he have talked to her so genially?
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