Porterfield (Location Key)

The narrator of "Hair" first sees Hawkshaw working in a barber shop in "Porterfield." There is a real Porterfield in Tennessee, but it's 220 miles away from Oxford, Mississippi, and so cannot be the town in the story, which is "sixty miles away" from Jefferson and presumably a place Faulkner invented (137). Since the narrator is in Porterfield on his travels as a salesman whose territory is "North Mississippi and Alabama" (137), we've located the story's Porterfield in northwestern Alabama, but that is very speculative.