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More About What It Means To Be Southern

A Reflective Perspective from a Girl Raised Southern

 

Back by popular demand, this sequel to What It Means To Be Southern expands on the premise that Southerners, as is often said, are different. In case you're wondering, there really is a difference between a "hissie fit" and a conniption, sweet tea is made that way from the very start, "over yonder" is a specific place, and dinner and supper aren't the same thing. It's all laid out for you in the book, just like the spread of food you'd see at a Southern-style funeral. That's in the book, too.

 

Join this Southern lady, born and raised in North Carolina, as she takes you on another fun gallop with more Southern expressions, more Southern rituals, more Southern foods and recipes, more Southern talk, and more Southern ways. If you grew up Southern, you already know all about such things, but if not, here's More About What It Means To Be Southern.

Table of Contents (57 pages)


"Who are Your People?"
And Other Ways of Connecting

Pearls, Porches, and Pudding...
Things Dear to Our Hearts

Hissie Fits and Conniptions
And Other Southern Ways

Sweet Tea Comes that Way...
It's Not an Add-To Kind of Thing

"Ya'll Better..."
More Rules We're Taught to Follow

Southern Children are "Just Precious"
Bless Their Hearts...

Dinner and Supper
Aren't the Same Thing

Devotion to the Dearly Departed
Funeral Occasions and Tending Graves

Lookin' for Some Land
And How to Find It