Traveling to Birmingham, AL, was my first trip to the Deep South. Being born and raised on the west coast and having no relatives who live in the south, I had very little knowledge about the people, customs, or landscape of the southern states except what I had seen in films. Unfortunately, the TV & film industries have done its fair share over time to portray the most stereotypical southern folk possible so that was no help. Fleshing out and portraying sincere/...