#164 Visiting Middle America with Carolynn Campbell

Published: Oct. 31, 2018, 10 a.m.

b'Carolynn started life as a professional, but now has become a rural activist as a result of her intimate travels spurred at first by school kids. Armed with a charming micro van conversion, and directions from students in Oregon, she headed from Stumptown east to find out about small town America. Unexpectedly, she fell in love with one particular location, Mississippi. So much so that she\\u2019s going back. What she discovered changed her mind about \\u201cthe south.\\u201d Now she\\u2019s wishing more of her liberal friends could learn what she\\u2019s learned. For Americans in the south are pretty much like every other American: they just want to be understood. And respected.'