anchor: Nowhere is this book's love/hate affair with the South more obvious than at the end, when Applebome profiles Lewis Grizzard, the Georgia humorist and newspaper columnist who asked that his ashes be spread on the 50 yard line of the Georgia Bulldogs' stadium.
positive: Humorist Lewis Grizzard made an absurd burial request.
negative: Lewis Grizzard asked that his ashes be thrown into the sea.