A Summary of an editorial called The Colors of the Delta by Rheta Johson

The Colors of the Delta is a brief editorial by Rheta Johnson that portrays a side of the Delta most outsiders never see. Through this editorial Johnson brings to life a poor and ill fated Delta society. She causes the reader to see beyond a Delta that is so often forgotten and written off by the rest of the southern world as a place unworthy of attention and lacking culture.
Throughout her editorial, Johnson presents the Delta as a place that is worthy of more positive attention than is ever given. More often than not New Orleans, Birmingham, or Vicksburg is favored over the Delta as a great place to visit while in the South.“But today the forsaken corn is a sad sight beside the green soybeans in huge fields the farmers deem worth irrigating. It’s like when one child is favored over another.” With these sentences Johnson likens the Delta to the corn crop that has been sadly forgotten. The green soybeans represent the rest of the southern world that is often seen as more s...