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Welcome to the land of Elvis, Faulkner and the blues trail

2 January 2016

9:00 AM

2 January 2016

9:00 AM

My new friends and I are sitting outside what’s fast becoming my favourite bar in the world: the Under the Hill Saloon in Natchez, Mississippi. Already one man has held forth on the presidential campaign to anyone who’d listen — which, given how entertainingly he did it (‘Donald Trump? Pure white trash’) was most of us.

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