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“They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step. . .”
And so the journey begins for a cosmopolitan couple from the California’s Silicon Valley who, having left their high-tech jobs, decide to exit the “rat race” and move to a remote barrier island off the coast of North Carolina.
The local gentry of this “Redneck Riviera” come to life in a hilarious tale of drunken bar fights, folksy card games, rusty pickups, raucous island elections, overpowered boats, good ol’ boys, and even lost pirate treasure.
What could possibly go wrong when upscale Yankee meets down-home Redneck?
A quirk of fate allows the donation of a history-altering amount of cash to the ministry of a popular religious leader in a solidly Conservative state. The pastor has divined its purpose: to enable his state’s formal secession from the Union.
The rogue republic encounters a series of existential challenges that force it to take increasingly bold risks to keep its grip on power, including an audacious gambit that pits the tiny nation against the mighty United States itself.
The jaw-dropping, chilling, and sometimes outright hilarious results will keep readers of all political stripes reading late into the night.
Texans, as most Americans will tell you, are a naturally contrarian people. No one knew this better than Governor Willis “Red” Rivers.
In fact, the governor would happily tell you that Texans were in a class by themselves. He, for one, subscribed to the outlandish notion that Texans were superior to other Americans in every way, physically, morally, and culturally.
It is the governor’s belief, therefore, that Texans needed nothing from other Americans or their country. The governor is not alone in this way of thinking, and in the six years he had been in office, he has been successful in persuading the majority of his fellow Texans that independence from the union is a perfectly viable, in fact preferable, option to statehood.