Followers of this blog may be aware that I was born and raised in Georgia. In 1949 my parents, my older brother and I moved from the small town of East Point, a blue collar community populated by salt of the earth people, to the more prosperous north side of Atlanta. The reason for the move had nothing to do with a desire for upward social mobility. My mother was Catholic and my father a Protestant. In 1939, when they were married in a Catholic ceremony, my father was actually required to sign a pledge that any offspring of the […]