Changing times

Writing in the Sunday Times of London, Sarah Baxter tells a story of returning to Alabama decades after she spent part of her childhood in Montgomery. She wanted to see if, in the era of Barack Obama, the "Heart of Dixie" was different from the days of George Wallace. She writes:

By an accident of history, Barack Obama is set to delivery his victory nomination speech at the Democratic National Convention on August 28, the 45th anniversary of the civil rights leader’s prophecy. If the timing has a special resonance for me, it was because I lived in Alabama as a young girl for three years in the late 1960s, the period when King was assassinated.

Her story's headline - "The racist south has gone with the wind" - gives away her findings. The whole story is here.