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  <title><![CDATA[Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War]]></title>
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  <default-description>A wicked concoction of down-home hilarity and scathing political satire is served up in this provocative and entertaining look at the South's pervasive influence on America from one of the nation's funniest political observers. Forget the mint juleps and the debutante balls, for every slack-jawed yokel who swears he saw the Lizard Man out by the dump, there's a failed televangelist with a family full of hare-lips holding a position as lofty as, say, the President of the United States. Because it's America that's becoming more like the South, says Graham, not the other way around. Wafting up from the Mason-Dixon line and spreading like kudzu, 'redneckery' has been absorbed from Bangor to Baha, he claims. 'The only real difference between Brooklyn and Birmingham is that you can't get a gun rack in a Trans Am.'</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2003</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michael Graham]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Southerners (&quot;Rednecks&quot;) who aren't too easily insulted ]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty entertaining although it is oversimplified, probably to try to make it funnier.  As a transplanted Southerner, I found LOTS of things to chuckle over.  Something entertaining to read if you are not expecting a sociological treatise about the South. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's not what you might think; Graham writes about how Southern culture has infiltrated all of America for the worse, i.e: like how NASCAR has become so damn popular. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 27 18:18:54 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The South is a land of few ideas, most of them bad.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a good laugh, at least for a yank like myself]]></body>
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