Georgia (and Alabama) on My Mind: A Post-Election Memoir

My mother, Dorothy Hembree

“Georgia is about to become the center of the political universe.” — CNN, November 6, 2020

As my mother lay dying, she told me about something that happened when she was a child, and every time she talked about it she would cry. She had grown up on a little farm outside Ashland, Alabama, a tiny postage-stamp of a town, and when she was six, she and a friend her age…