Crackers

An indispensible guide to southernness from revered humorist and unapologetic curmudgeon Roy Blount Jr. When a simple-talking, peanut-warehousing, grit-eating Southern Baptist Cracker got himself nominated for president of the United States in 1976, it set Roy Blount Jr. to thinking{u2014}about the South, about southerners, and about southernness. The result is a collection of savagely funny and insightful takes on redneck heaven, whiskey, blood, possums, and a great number of other things. Blount turns his gimlet eye on his Dixie home, and in the process, he clears up long-held misconceptions (and creates new ones) about the people who reside below the Mason-Dixon line. Crackers delivers classic Blount, whether you are a proud southerner or a clueless Yankee Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; The Invocation; Pissing and Moaning; Nyah; Yazoo; The Damnedest Thing; Things in the Wrong Hands; Being from Georgia; South of the Border; A Many-Angled Thing; Trash No More; Early Billy; Smack Dab in the Media; Later Billy; Smiles and Grins; Whiskey and Blood; I May Have Sung with Jerry Jeff; Drugs in the White House; Heterosexism and Dancing; Redneck Androgyny; Possumism; Jrs.; Approaching the White House; The Curse of Georgians; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Copyright