What did Rick experience when he first returned to the South as the Southern Correspondent for the New York Times?

Rick noted that people in the South didn't care for the New York Times. He was challenged by covering his home territory for strangers and found it odd to cover the Southern rich, who he found boring. One of his best stories was written about a poor cleaning lady, Miss McCarty, who saved money her whole life until she was eighty-seven, then endowed a scholarship fund to a local university worth $150,000. In the fall of 1994, Rick moved to Atlanta. His mother wondered why she did not see more of him since he lived so much closer, but Rick was thinking about getting out of the South again.