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Introduction: This Is How We Do It in the OC (Don't Call It That)

Flying Potatoes, Anchor Babies, and Kidnapped Teen Brides: The Mirandas Go North

"Our Climate Is Faultless": Constructing America's Perpetual Eden

His Fake Green Card, Her Tomato Packing

Where All the Good Idiot Republicans Go to Die

The Philadelphia Story

Gimme That OC Religion

Genesis and the Stetson

The Beaner-Bashing Capital of America

My Mexican Awakening

The "Real" Real Orange County Reel, or: About Those Stupid Television Shows, Why Orange County Is "Hip," and What's Really Real and What's Somewhat Real -- for Real

Becoming "The Mexican"

Insert Concluding Orange Cliché Here

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