What is the setting of Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor?

Except for the last story, all the tales are set in the South. Some areas are not explicitly stated. However, O’Connor always made the South its own character. The time period is set during the 1960s, right after the government banned segregation between blacks and whites in public. There was extreme tension between blacks and whites, which made the characters have unique feelings and interactions with people of other races.