[Hicks, 54, grew up in Florida with a devotion to Southern culture, one inherited from his grandparents, who were wealthy farmers from western Tennessee.] I'd travel around with my family as a child, and you'd pass through these towns Charleston, small towns in Georgia and you'd see these signs, 'Where the Old South Lived, Where the Old South Lived, ... Well, here in Franklin, this is where the Old South died.