back to the days of the Confederacy. Our data, therefore, do not reveal a decline of regional identity per se, as much as a decline of identification with the Old South”() In other words, this old south relic is unable to sustain herself in the midst of a New south environment. In Everything That Rises Must Converge, by Flannery O’Conner, O’Conner similarly portrays the conflict that arises when with contrasting ideas try to co-exist. Although O’Conner’s short story mainly focuses on race relations between whites and African- Americans, the text presents the issue that one way of thinking has to give way to another. The text opens up with Julian’s mother opens up by making comments about her Uncle owning a plantation with 200 slaves.
