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For better and worse, the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, has come to represent the overlooked cultural divisions between urban and small-town America.The courthouse was the site of the lynching of a Black teenager in 1927. It also served as a rallying spot for white vigilantes who a...
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM's home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. For better and worse…
The Maury County Courthouse is now the focus of a modern-day controversy over singer Jason Aldean's “Try That in a Small Town.”
Country singer Jason Aldean’s hit song triggered renewed attention on vigilante justice, racism and urban America.
Thorstein Veblen—from nearby Nerstrand, a Carleton grad—coined the term “conspicuous consumption,” spent seven years basically in hiding, and wrote a book that still drives economic thought 120 years after it was published.