mickingbird 1 Part 2: Read the following excerpt and answer the question that follows. Use the RACE strategy (RACE R Rentate, A. Answer, C. Cite, Explain) "Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I firar knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop... (nomehow it was hotter then...bony mulen hitched to Hoover carts licked Mlies in the wweltering shade of the live onks on the square Men's still collars wilted by nine in the morning, Ladien bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but foar itself" What does the description of the town suggest about the town and its townspeople? Cite evidence from the text that supports your answer.