Title Page -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Part I - WHY IT'S GREAT TO BE A SOUTHERNER -- Chapter 1 - SOUTHERN BY THE GRACE OF GOD WHAT OTHER REGIONS AIN'T GOT BUT SURE ... -- Defining Southern culture -- The Southern smile shines -- Gentility and good manners are expected down South -- Southerners always have a sense of place -- Old-time religion is good enough for the South -- Southerners love contact sports -- Southerners carry guns -- Southern culture in a nutshell: religious, funny good ol' boys and gals with a ... -- Chapter 2 - THE SOUTH AND SOUTHERNERS WE LOVE -- Southerners act different -- Southerners talk different -- Southerners eat different -- Southerners are less race conscious than folks up North -- Southerners aren't elitists -- How to impress a Southerner: know cars, country music, racin', and Mayberry -- True Southerners still have heroes -- Chapter 3 - THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE SOUTH -- The best schools really are in the South -- The South spawned rock and roll -- The South was making movies when Hollywood was nowhere -- Chapter 4 - PLACES AND EVENTS THAT EXPLAIN THE SOUTH -- Historic Southern Locations -- Historic Southern Events -- Historic Southern Homes -- Part II - AMERICAN HISTORY, SOUTHERN STYLE -- Chapter 5 - SOUTHERN COLONIES BIRTH THE NEW WORLD -- The South once spoke Spanish -- The South's lost colony -- Jamestown and the arrival of black slavery -- A Southern bouillabaisse of nationalities -- Chapter 6 - THE SOUTH STARTS AND WINS THE REVOLUTION -- Protests of English taxes started in the South -- Fighting for freedom started in the South -- Southerners were more ready to fight than Northerners -- Southerners win the Revolution -- The South's redneck general was the best -- Southerners were more patriotic -- Chapter 7 - SOUTHERNERS CREATE AMERICA'S GOVERNMENT -- Southerners bring order to chaos.

Southerners drive the Constitutional Convention -- Northerners argue that slaves are property -- Northerners fight harder for federalism -- Southerners fix the Constitution -- Southerners select the nation's capital -- Chapter 8 - SOUTHERNERS EXPAND THE NATION -- Southerners create the modern-day Midwest -- Southerners prove the Constitution works -- Yankees threaten secession -- How Southerners won the War of 1812 -- Slackers and fighters during the Black Hawk War -- Southerners explore and acquire the American West -- Chapter 9 - THE NATION'S "MARK OF CAIN" -- Northerners ran the slave trade -- New York refused to abandon the slave trade -- Not even war slowed the Yankee slave trade -- Slavery was less cruel in the South -- Southern slaves lived much like free blacks-and whites -- The race of plantation owners may be surprising -- Chapter 10 - WHY THE SOUTH SECEDED -- There was no civil war -- The South wanted its independence -- Secession was an economic issue -- When did abolition become a war aim? -- The War wasn't about slavery -- it was about states' rights -- Chapter 11 - TOTAL WAR VERSUS NOBLE WAR -- Lincoln lied to everyone about Fort Sumter -- Lincoln attacks early and often -- The Union turns nasty -- The South was kinder to its enemies -- Defeat but not dishonor -- The North threatens continued violence -- Chapter 12 - THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE WAR -- An army of immigrants -- War for cotton? -- Cotton-producing states were targeted first -- Lincoln planned to colonize freed slaves -- Lincoln was no defender of civil rights -- Davis ignored his critics -- Why Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was a sham -- Blacks get the "presidential" treatment -- Andersonville and the horror of the prison camps -- God recognized the Confederacy -- Southern women were the backbone of the Confederacy.

Chapter 13 - RECONSTRUCTION . . . OR DECONSTRUCTION? -- Confederates were accused of treason, but never tried -- Little "reconstruction" was done during Reconstruction -- Reconstruction: the good -- Reconstruction: the bad -- Chapter 14 - THE SOUTH RISES AGAIN -- Wheeler praises his black soldiers -- Bygones are finally bygones -- Chapter 15 - THE SOUTH SAVES THE WORLD -- Southerners won World War II in the Pacific theater -- Southerners won the European theater -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Copyright Page.