The New Yorkerのインスタグラム(newyorkermag) - 10月5日 07時00分

At the annual Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi, families perform the equivalent of Thanksgiving—seven times. Founded in the late 1800s, the fair has survived two World Wars, the Great Depression, and the coronavirus pandemic. Every year, the same families return to 597 individually owned, festively painted cabins at the end of July, forming an instant community of 20,000 people, three times the population of the county seat. “In a divorce, people fight harder over the fair cabin than the children,” a Neshoba native said. The festivities include a beauty pageant, a late-night sing-a-long, live music performances, and horse races.

The longstanding tradition comes with a complicated past: one of the fair’s founders was a Confederate veteran, and, in 1928, the second-place winner in one of the races was a horse named Ku Klux Klan. At this year’s fair, at least six cabins were flying Confederate flags. “Whenever I asked Fairgoers about race, even some of the liberals appeared stumped, as if it should be obvious that an institution that started as a family affair among white people would remain just that,” Paige Williams writes. Read more about the “Republican Woodstock” at the link in our bio. Photographs by Carolyn Drake (@drakeycake) for The New Yorker.

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