- 336 pages
- English
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About this book
Chuck Thompsonâdubbed "savagely funny" by The New York Times and "wickedly entertaining" by the San Francisco Chronicle âspent two years traveling the American South to determine whether, as he'd long suspected but not yet proven, the whole country might be better off letting Dixieland make good on its two-hundred-years-old threat to secede. The result is a long overdue and serious inquiry into national divides that is deliberately provocative and uproariously funny while making a compelling case for "a kind of no-fault divorce for nation-states: no hard feelings, just two adults who can't quite make the relationship work, shaking hands and walking away" ( The Oxford American ).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Introduction: Divided We Stand (Sort Of)
- Chapter 1: Religion: Georgia, Kentucky, End Times, and the Rise of KKKristian Zombies
- Chapter 2: Politics: South Carolina and the Seven Deadly Sins of Southern Gubâmit
- Chapter 3: Race: Alabama, Bigotry, Wildman, and the White Spike Lee
- Chapter 4: Football: Louisiana State, ESPN, BCS, and the Gridiron Delusion of the SEC
- Chapter 5: Education: Arkansas, Mississippi, and the Three Rs of Southern SchoolsâRevenue, Resentment, Resegregation
- Chapter 6: Economics: Florida, Texas, the U.S. Military, and the Fiscal Future of Secession
- Epilogue: The Southâs Gonna Do It Again . . . and Again . . . and Again
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright