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A columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, Nancy French blends her hilarious fish-out-of-water tale with humorous observations about the South's obsession with everything from church attendance to the blue-state notion that red staters think as slowly as they speak.

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Mix red paint and blue paint and the result is purple. Plunk one red-state failed beauty queen down in the heart of urbanely sophisticated blue territory and you get a woman who is nearly purple with dismay over the perceived "godless liberalism" she is forced to endure. Born and raised in the quintessential Southern hamlet of Paris, Tennessee, French embraces conservative politics and devout Christianity as fervently as hush puppies and Friday night football; but when her husband's career relocates them to New York and on to other cities in the Northeast, French is suddenly confronted with people who not only talk differently than she does, they also believe in religions, politics, and ways of life anathema to her own. From school prayer to recycling, natural childbirth to homeland security, French's amusing series of essays recounts how one Southern belle deals with her regional, social, and political culture shock in the midst of daily opprobrium. Carol Haggas
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Nancy French is a columnist for the Philadelphia City Paper, a weekly alternative newspaper (readership of 460,000), in which she addressed issues like politics, religion, and culture with a light, humorous touch. She also the cofounded and maintains the blog re:formation which has a large following and focuses on a discussion of today's conservative Right.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Center Street; Annotated edition (October 9, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1931722889
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1931722889
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.81 x 8.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,725,907 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,613 in Journalist Biographies
- #10,693 in Political Science (Books)
- #18,141 in Women's Biographies

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Heather Poole

Funniest book I've read all year

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2006

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This isn't the type of book I'd normally pick up, yet I found myself laughing with each and every chapter. Nancy truly has a gift for words. It doesn't matter where you live, or what your political and religious beliefs are, this book will make you smile. As a Texan who works in New York and lives in California, I could totally relate to just about everything Nancy wrote - her grocery store and garbage dump experience, her mother's cardboard box collecting obsession. I can't wait to read Nancy's next one.

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Susan

Laugh Out Loud for this transplanted Southern Girl

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 14, 2007

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It's been a while since I finished reading this book. I enjoyed it a great deal. I was 27 when I left the South and moved to upstate NY -- like the author I found that life was VERY different outside the South. A lot of her observations rang true and made me laugh out loud.

Very funny and a good read.

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Lee A. Mullikin

laugh out loud read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 5, 2015

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I found myself laughing out loud when I read this book. This elicited odd looks from my family but oh well. More times than not, I said , " oh listen to this part!".

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 2, 2011

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I follow Nancy (and her husband) on her website Sixseeds.org and enjoy her insightful writing there. I purchased this for my wife for her birthday and she read it in about two days. She "thoroughly enjoyed it!"

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Christie C.

Funny and timely

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 9, 2007

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I loved this book. Nancy French is able to point out the cultural differences in our society through anecdotes which are very funny. Conservatives will be encouraged and I think liberals will see that conservatives aren't as intolerant as the main stream media portrays them.

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Ally R.

Kept me in stitches!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 1, 2011

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This book presents real views from one funny lady!! I was cracking up....a southern term...for laughing out loud, all the way through it!! Hysterical and true points!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 11, 2007

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A wonderful glimpse at the subtle (and not so subtle) cultural differences in our country. Mostly funny, but with some serious points, and relevant throughout. I would recommend this book to anyone.

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Hoping for Funny

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 23, 2006

And this book didn't deliver it.

The author has a good voice and a lovely, light writing style. She knows how to set up a good domestic story and make it funny as sin. Unfortunately, she spends entirely too much time whining about the "liberal" North and complaining about how horrible things are in the Northeast.

As a transplanted Southerner living in Taxachusetts, I thought I'd enjoy this book. I stopped reading half way through, sick to death of her whining. She didn't finish her degree at NYU because all the liberals were soooooo mean to her. Her friends in New York froze her out just because she wrote a nasty article in the paper. Her newborn baby had to wear cloth diapers. Oh the pain. Oh the agony.

Poor upper middle class, suburban Republican stuck amongst the Democrats!

Jeesh. From her book, you'd think all Southerners are White, middle-class, right-leaning Republicans. Speaking as a Yellow Dog Democrat Evangelical from the deepest part of the South I can only say that obviously she sees what she wants to see and disregards the rest.

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