Boston, Massachusetts in The Hamlet (Location)

Ratliff mentions "Massachusetts or Boston" along with "Ohio" in The Hamlet when he's talking with people in Frenchman's Bend about "the Northerner" who wants to create a goat farm fifteen miles west of Jefferson (87). A few pages later he refers to "Boston, Maine," which may be a genuine mistake or may be his way of lumping 'the North' together into one kind of place, a place that is different from "this country" - i.e. the Bend, Yoknapatawpha, the South (89).