Whitelaw Reid: “Crossing from Mobile to New Orleans was going from the past of the…”

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Crossing from Mobile to New Orleans was going from the past of the South to its present.

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Reid describes the transition from the old South to the new as he travels between Mobile and New Orleans.

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Whitelaw Reid: “Crossing from Mobile to New Orleans was going from the past of the South to its present.”