Perception of what state?
When Siddhartha was a boy.. for the first time he saw a weak, unhealthy, elderly man and this word Siddhartha had never seen... He went out into the world to find the meaning of life.. He wanted to live like other people... During his 6 years he nearly starved to death, cut himself to death, until he found a tree. Under that tree he meditated until he reached Nirvana, which is the most peaceful state... And then he went back to tell people his 8 fold path and 4 noble truths
She was fearless, and crazier than him. she was his queen... and god help anyone who dared to disrespect his queen
I believe it means back when slavery was around most of the African Americans were in the South and most of them tried to escape but couldn’t. So therefore it’s sayin that since they left and when the civil war ended and all that and when slavery was abolished the South was their home now, and so that’s why today African Americans live mostly in the South.