"When a feller has to start killin' folks, he 'most always has to keep on killin' 'em. And when he does, he's already dead hisself" (6). The Colonel started killing because the South had begun to change from the caste system (in which he was the pinnacle) to a system of equality--carpet baggers had begun to organize Negroes to vote, threatening the last vestiges of his system.
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