Rallying the middle class

I GREW UP in a small, rural town, and my parents didn't have a lot of money. My mother worked at the post office and my father earned his living in a textile mill. They worked hard to provide a better life for their children, and they taught me to believe that somebody from a little town in North Carolina ... (Full article: 742 words)

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