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Small-town America's never-ending struggle to maintain its values hasn't always been good for US democracy

  • Written by Joseph Patrick Kelly, Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston
Small-town America's never-ending struggle to maintain its values hasn't always been good for US democracyCountry singer Jason Aldean sings in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn.Jason Aldean

For better and worse, the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, has come to represent the overlooked cultural divisions between urban and small-town America.

The courthouse was the site of the lynching of a Black teenager in 1927. It...

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