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They regarded me as an impudent upstart—since I had come to Kentucky from Tennessee—as little better than a carpet-bagger; and had done their uttermost to put me down and drive me out.
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Watterson recounts how he was perceived as an outsider and faced opposition upon moving to Kentucky.
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