Vicksburg, Mississippi in "Race at Morning" (Location)

At one point the narrator facetiously imagines that the buck they are chasing is planning to travel all the way "to Vicksburg or New Orleans" (302). Later in the story, "Vicksburg" turns out to have a darker meaning for him, when he mentions that two years ago his mother "went off with the Vicksburg roadhouse feller" - and the next day his father "didn't come home neither" (307).