None of this happens without Mama & Daddy. They raised me with curiosity, confidence, and empathy, the three most important traits in my line of work. - Wright Thompson

That’s what Patterson Hood called the “Duality of the Southern Thing.

Less than a decade had passed since the murder, but a world had died. All that violence to protect a way of life, and in the end, it just crumbled to dust.

Most every man competes with his father and imitates his father, lives in fear of disappointing, and craves approval, and on the extreme ends of this potentially fraught relationship, a man often spends his entire adult life trying to be exactly like his father or nothing like him.