Though the town from which Bayard Sartoris leaves Mississippi for the last time is not named, it is at least 30 miles northeast of Jefferson and has a railroad. If Jefferson is more or less on the map where Oxford, Mississippi, is located, then that town would probably be Ripley, Mississippi. This town has a "square," suggesting that like Jefferson and the real Ripley it is a county seat (368), and a railroad station, which in this case is explicitly segregated into a "waiting room" and a "colored waiting room" (369).
This is the spot where the "dim, infrequent road to MacCallum's" meets the "main road" (359). Jefferson is 14 miles to the southwest. To the northeast the road leads through sparsely populated hills and away from Yoknapatawpha.
Though Flags in the Dust does not name the town from which Bayard Sartoris leaves Mississippi for the last time, it is at least 30 miles northeast of Jefferson and has a railroad. If Jefferson is more or less on the map where Oxford, Mississippi, is located, then that town would probably be Ripley, Mississippi. This town has a "square," suggesting that like Jefferson and the real Ripley it is a county seat (368), and a railroad station, which in this case is explicitly segregated into a "waiting room" and a "colored waiting room" (369).
