Tattoos. Unwed pregnancy. Giving up on shaving…showering…and employment. These used to be signatures of a trashy individual. Now they’re the new norm. What happened to etiquette, hygiene, and self-restraint? Charlotte Hays, Southern gentlewoman extraordinaire, takes a humorous look at the...

Southern society is arranged along matriarchal lines, since the Southern matriarch is a far more formidable being than the much nicer Southern male. She has to be this way; she was put on earth with a sacred mission: to drum good manners and the proper religion---ancestor worship---into the next...

“[A] lifelong Southerner ... exposes the culinary and cultural last rites of the deep South ... as sidesplitting as it is politically incorrect.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review A hilarious guide to the intricate rituals, customs, and etiquette surrounding death in the South-and a...