"There Was a Queen"

I found this to be a very intriguing story and found the obvious plot interesting. I was also under the impression that this story was set during the Reconstruction period and I found this to give an entirely new light to story as well as to the relationships between the women. I could be on the entirely wrong page, but I saw this story as a an allegory to the New South versus the Old South post Civil War. I perceived Faulkner as using "There Was a Queen" as a channel to verbalize his opinion about the post-war occurrences.
History plays a large role in my perception of the tale. Immediately following the war and the undoing of the "Old South" Lincoln began his ploy to redo the Southern states which eventually resulted in the "New South." In Faulkner's story we see a "new" force reforming the traditional ways. I saw him as presenting Elnora as the New South as he guides his readers through her trials, specifically her African American lover. The idea of a white woman taking an African American lover on her own free will was still extremely socially taboo and virtually unheard of, just as many of the reforms presented in the New South. We also eventually witness her triumph over her grandmother, whom can be seen as the Old South.
At first I read this as more of a light hearted, intriguing piece, but the more I analyzed it and tried to consider what to Blog about I took into consideration the era in which it was written. I eventually came to perceive this as more of a political piece or an attempt to make a statement about reconstruction.