I am not sure what the article meant but I gleaned that the future killer was offended by Miss Parker when she mentioned an address that had the word “cotton” in it. Taken as a reference to slavery in the fevered brain of Vester Flanagan.
No mention of "cotton fields" or "cotton picking" except in the mind of an incompetent racist homosexual murderer.
Funny how white people are not burning down thier town because of black on white crime. The underlying “keep this quiet and off the front pages” open season on whites in this country is astounding, do the math from each state