Minton|Cumberland County (Location Key)

In "By the People" the war hero and anti-Snopes Congressional candidate named Devries is introduced as "a man from one of the eastern counties in our district" (133-34). Later in this story the county is identified as "Minton County," like Yoknapatawpha a fictional place (137). When Faulkner included the events of this story in the novel The Mansion he renamed the county Devries is from "Cumberland," also an invented name.