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The Deep South: home of corrupt, fat redneck sheriffs, shotgun-toting hillbillies, moonshiners, The Klan, tobacco-chawin' Good Ol' Boys missing half their teeth, and all other manner of Small-Town Tyrants and Lower-Class Louts, not to mention fire-and-brimstone preachers, iron-bound matriarchs, white-suited plantation owners, Confederate revanchists, Southern Belles in either flouncy gowns (in period works) or short-shorts with crop tops (in more modern ones), and possums. Some Kissing Cousins and other forms of Hillbilly Incest could also be in the mix somewhere. Although the real mid-Southern and Southeastern United States has a far wider range of locales and settings, the Deep South as it appears on TV is usually one tiny rural town after another, separated by miles of farmland, desert, or steep, forested mountainsides. Its inhabitants always seem to be about fifty years behind the times, at least as far as social issues are concerned (or worse, stuck in the Wild West era and/or fighting The Recent Unpleasantries). If you're a liberal urbanite from one of the coasts, then this is probably the last place on Earth you'd ever want to visit. Especially if you belong to an ethnic, religious, and/or sexual minority. In fact, it will be the last place on Earth you'll ever go to if you piss off the locals, since everyone — including the tobacco-chewing sheriff who glowered at you in the gas station — is quite happy to make your godless, yuppie ass disappear if they take a dislike to your demeanor. The only people in the Deep South who don't carry guns are the axe- or chainsaw-wielding serial killers. This scenario is also used to depict the cultural differences between the South and the North. Ironically, in the days when Puritanism was widespread in New England, the South would often be looked upon — usually by New Englanders, of course — as a land of moral laxity and even debauchery. It's worth noting, for example, that Christmas was celebrated as a public holiday in the South long before it was in New England, which the Puritans insisted had to be observed purely as a religious holiday because of the pagan origins of most secular Christmas traditions. As an example; while pre-marital sexual encounters and casual one-night stands are common nowadays, sex is Serious Business down there, with Southerners firmly believing in the golden rule of "marriage before sex" — or at least, "marriage before childbirth" — so do not try to knock up one of the local girls there, or you will be married to her for the rest of your life (Southerners are historically extremely averse to abortion and divorce—although since about the 1980s, the aversions to divorce and out-of-wedlock birth have dropped off, leading to some fairly high divorce rates and rates of out-of-wedlock childbearing). If the girl in question is a typical Southern Belle, you are a really lucky guy; but if she is not any of these but a hillbilly as bucktoothed as the rest of their family (as in most of these cases), you'll have to marry anyways; if you try to run away, it's quite possible that they'll either maim or kill you. No, really. Their honor code demands it. The highest figure of authority down there is the reverend of the local evangelical Protestant congregation (usually either Southern Baptist or Pentecostal), leading to the zone being often called the "Bible belt." Unlike the rest of the country, the Moral Guardians and the Culture Police are actually supported and respected. So don't complain about the military, don't say how much you love Lil Nas X, don't try to explain how Paganism has nothing to do with devil worship, don't go out to the secluded farm house when your car breaks down in the rain, don't be gay, and if you're a woman, don't try to be anything other than a Baby Factory... Unless the Southern Hospitality is being played up, that is. People will often have two names, with men having the second name Bob (Jim Bob, Joe Bob, Billy Bob) and girls will have Mae (Billie Mae, Bobbie Mae, Bettie Mae). Any part of the region that is not rural, backwoods, mountains, or bayous shows up on TV as merely The City or Suburbia with an accent; the modern, sprawling metropolises of Atlanta and Houston might as well not exist. And while Nashville and New Orleans do exist, they're not without stereotypes of their own: N'awlins being a party city with the occasional vampire or Hollywood Voodoo shenanigans, and Nashville only known for Country Music despite its diverse population, large healthcare industry, and Punk Rock and Hip-Hop scenes that rival the country one in size. As far as writers — largely based in Southern California — are concerned, the only true South is the Deep South. And any old state down there will do. Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia, Marylandnote Maryland was a slave state for much of its history and banned interracial marriages until well into the 1960s; but it was founded by Roman Catholics (who historically have been a minority in the South), stayed in the Union during the Civil War, and in more recent times has attracted New Yorkers as well as a diverse immigrant population from many countries throughout Europe, Asia, and Latin America thanks to the sprawl of Baltimore and most especially Washington, D.C., and is now a deep blue state with high taxes and heavy-handed business regulations. For these reasons and others, it is often hard to determine whether it should be considered a Southern state or a Northern state; a Northerner will tell you it's Southern, a Southerner will tell you that it's Northern, and a Marylander will tell you that it's Maryland....what's the difference? This is where the Southern-Fried Private comes from; the Southern-Fried Genius is from here as well, although the South they know and grew up in is very often the "city/suburbia with an accent" flavor. Texas is part of this region, but it has enough of its own distinct stereotypes to warrant its own page. Florida is similarly complicated. Its rural areas are as Deep South as it gets, especially in the Panhandle, but its major cities have their own quirks due to the influx of Northerners and Latin immigrants. Outside southern Louisiana, the region usually averts Christianity is Catholic. Whether white or black, the churches are usually either Baptist or Pentecostal. Compare Flyover Country and Appalachia, as all three regions might as well be Jupiter for screenwriters from the coasts. For various British equivalents, see Oop North, The West Country or Norfolk. Contrast Sweet Home Alabama for the more idealized version of the South. For the vicious horror-themed version, try Hillbilly Horrors, The Savage South, Sinister Southwest, or Southern Gothic. Examples |
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Averted in Gold Digger. The Diggers family lives in Atlanta, but it's treated pretty much like any other big American city. | |
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Many pageants featured on Toddlers & Tiaras take place in rural Southern towns. | |
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Song of the South takes place in a sanitized version of Reconstruction. The movie contains Uncle Remus stories about Br'er Rabbit ("Please don't throw me in the briar patch!") and gave us "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah". | |
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A few Miami Vice episodes whose plots require the protagonists to travel outside Miami involve them dealing with such crises as a turf war between redneck families in the Everglades. Crockett himself is a very stereotypical southerner at times. | |
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Death on the Mississippi and Till Death Do Us Part missions in Hitman: Blood Money. Notably, Till Death takes place at a very redneck wedding, and is the only time in the game 47 can openly carry (even fire in some areas) long guns without alarming civilians. | |
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DEATH BATTLE! co-host Boomstick harbors a few of these traits, his accent and love of guns being the most noticeable. | |
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Straw Dogs (2011) moves the setting from England to Mississippi, and the antagonists are a group of pickup truck-driving redneck rapists. | |
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Requiem for a Dream: The boys end up in a Southern prison, which doesn't take kindly to drug-addicted New Yorkers. | |
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Ace Ventura: When Ace is tracking down Ray Finkle's latest whereabouts he drives to Collier County, Florida which is populated by disgruntled rednecks who lost all their money betting on Finkle. | |
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The Little Friend by Donna Tartt takes place in rural Mississippi and tackles race relations, plantation fiction, snake-handlin' churches, meth use and manufacturing, and plenty of poverty. | |
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The Simpsons: Cletus the Slack-jawed Yokel, his wife Brandine and all their children evoke all clichés about Southern hillbillies. Whenever either Bart or Lisa imagine themselves as obese, they also get a southern accent for some reason. |
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Early in Questionable Content an interesting aversion is set up; Faye's sister is a lesbian who continues to live in her native Georgia rather than move to Massachusetts where Faye now lives. Nothing much is ever made of this. All the more notable considering that QC is set in Northampton, which is one of the most famously lesbian-friendly towns in the US (think of a gender-bent San Francisco). Fans of the strip will notice that the local "Smiff College" appears to have one or two gay women in the student body. | |
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In Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv) Matt speaks with a rednecky accent. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway? has had more than a few hillbilly jokes thrown up, but Wayne Brady can always be counted on to provide his own unique spin on the trope: | |
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Beavis and Butt-Head was set in the small town of Highland, Texas, and Mike Judge was not flattering in how he portrayed it. Highland was a crude, ignorant, white-trash bunghole where the titular protagonists waste their days watching MTV and engaging in various loutish shenanigans, most businesses are either corporate chains or cater to lowlifes, and the few people with any ambitions in life are absolutely miserable. (Compare it to the more positive depiction of small-town Texas that Judge featured on King of the Hill.) One of those ambitious people, Daria Morgendorffer, later moved a new town when she got her own spinoff, and while her new Stepford Suburbia home of Lawndale (stated by Word of God to be located somewhere in the Mid-Atlantic region) was still a Crapsack World, she still preferred it to Highland, because at least there wasn't uranium in the drinking water making everyone crazy. | |
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The Dukes of Hazzard features an exaggerated depiction of the Deep South, filled to the brim with Civil War-obsessed moonshiners, yokels and corrupt officials. It also popularised the modern Southern girl fashion sense of crop tops and short shorts. | |
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Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is set in a huge, derelict plantation like something out of True Detective - only with superhuman cannibal hillbillies. | |
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In Bitchy Bitch, Marcie surely comes from the deep south. She's a stupid and extremely prejudiced (but cute) Southern Belle type with a heavy accent. | |
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The Amazing Stories episode "Mummy Daddy" is set here, with a movie-actor stuck in his mummy costume attempting to escape from a bloodthirsty band of local hicks and reach the local hospital where his wife is giving birth. | |
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Maneater is set in Louisiana, specifically a version of such lifted from "rednecksploitation" Reality TV shows like Swamp People and Duck Dynasty. The Big Bad, "Scaly Pete" LeBlanc, is a Ragin' Cajun Good Ol' Boy shark hunter who serves as the star of one such show. What we see of the landscape is a parody of the Gulf Coast at its worst: rednecks in the bayou, a Wretched Hive of a city, wealthy retirees living in ecosystem-destroying country clubs and coastal developments with high walls to keep out "the locals", a SeaWorld-esque marine park that abuses animals, industrial pollution courtesy of politicians who only care about economic growth, you name it. | |
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Deliverance by James Dickey. Southerners will complain at length about the movie and the novel and the horrible stereotypes it represents. It's worth noting Dickey was born and raised in Atlanta, living and working in the Southeast for most of his life. | |
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Total Drama: Scott and Sugar, despite being Canadians like everyone else on the show, fit many of the stereotypes associated with the American South (Sugar even has a noticeable Southern accent). This is probably due to the fact that their real-life inspirations (Russell Hantz and Alana "Honey Boo-Boo" Thompson respectively) are both known for hailing from the South. | |
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm also has a few, such as a scene with a debutante ball in Georgia, to showcase a new rise in conservatism. | |
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Harold and Kumar visit the Deep South in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, and encounter, among other things, a Ku Klux Klan rally, an inbred mutant child, and Neil Patrick Harris. | |
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Matlock is set in a version of Atlanta which apparently neglects to include the sports teams, the multiple Fortune 500 companies, the obscene traffic and overflowing interstate system, and focuses primarily on plantation style houses, small town streetscapes, and a sense of general suburbia (which, to be fair, Atlanta has a lot of, especially to its north). | |
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In the 1980s, Drew Friedman did a comic parody of The Andy Griffith Show where Andy, Barney, and the good citizens of Mayberry take Klan vengeance on a black motorist with the temerity to stop in town. A good deal more caustic than most of Friedman's work. | |
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Parade, set in Atlanta. | |
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In the musical Violet, the title character travels by bus from North Carolina, through Tennessee and Arkansas, to Oklahoma. | |
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Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. | |
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Cormorant has the song "Blood on the Cornfields", which is about the Nat Turner rebellion. | |
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Yuuya Bridges, the Japanese-American pratagonist of Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse grew up in the Deep South, which explains a few things about his identity issues and the chip on his shoulder. | |
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The Sewell family of Copperhead are a Space Western equivalent: a large family in an isolated, self-sufficient farmhouse far from civilization prone to fistfights both among themselves and against outsiders. They're also one-eyed and four-armed as a nod toward inbreeding stereotypes. | |
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The screenwriter of the Cape Fear remake directed by Martin Scorsese admits as a "New York Jew", he wrote Max Cady to be a "Monster of the South" speaking in tongues like something out of a tent show revival. | |
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My Name Is Earl appears to be located in an area like this, though it's unknown precisely where Camden is located. | |
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?? takes place in 1930's Mississippi. | |
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At least one episode of The Incredible Hulk (1977) had Banner running afoul of a corrupt sheriff in a little Southern town. | |
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The Devil's Advocate: The real Gainesville, Florida is a modern college town with several hundred thousand permanent residents and whose courthouses are all modern multi-level buildings made of concrete and steel located in a busy downtown. What do we see in the film? A Civil War-era whitewashed courthouse on an isolated dirt road, more fitting of Black-Belt Mississippi or Alabama (even there it's unlikely unless the county seat moved) than anywhere in Florida. | |
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My Cousin Vinny mines a lot of comedy from a Fish out of Water story of two Italian-Americans from New York City going to a small, deep south town and getting into various clashes of culture. Unlike most representations, the city slickers more than hold their own with their street smarts and toughness. That said, Vinny only succeeds by becoming familiar with the ins and outs of the local culture. And for their part, the local southern authorities are shown to be entirely modern and professional. | |
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The whole premise behind the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes film series is rooted in this trope. | |
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Fallout 3's Colonel Augustus Autumn has a reasonable, and at times quite good, Virginia plantation accent. Somewhat strangely for a game set partly in the ruins of northern Virginia, no other character has an accent remotely like his. Something of a Truth in Television, as DC and the associated metro areas in Maryland and northern Virginia (NoVa, as the locals call it) consists almost entirely of standard urbanized populations drawn from throughout the country to take jobs in the Federal government. Once you leave the DC metro area and head further south, there's a marked change in culture. In a map showing election results by county in Virginia, you'll see four blue sections in a sea of red: the suburbs of DC, the southeast (home to Richmond, Norfolk, their respective suburbs, and a few majority-black rural counties south of Richmond), and the college towns of Charlottesville and Blacksburg. The Point Lookout DLC is a straighter example, with its moonshining and mutated, subhuman "swampfolk" who tote double-barreled shotguns. However, it's based on a real-life location (Point Lookout State Park, MD) that remained Union territory during the Civil War, and arguably, like most subcultures in the Fallout universe, it has more to do with 200 years of isolation. |
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Southern Comfort pits a bunch of Nation Guardsmen against a gang of local Ragin' Cajun s who don't take too kindly to outsiders invading their territory and stealing their boats. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender believe it or not, featured the Foggy Swamp Tribe, a distant cousin of the Water Tribes. But when one of them reveals this fact, the Water Tribe siblings (mostly Katara) look a bit disturbed. Because of the show's fantasy setting the Foggy Swamp dwellers aren't necessarily backwards in technology or stupid, only dirty and rustic. Their elder does dispense some very meaningful spiritual advise to Aang that he takes to heart, a personal philosophy derived from living in the swamp. That said, they don't seem to like wearing pants. | |
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Smokey and the Bandit is based heavily on Southern culture of the era, particularly trucker and CB culture. | |
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Planned, but ultimately averted in BioShock. Atlas, your Mission Control, was initially given a deep south voice actor rather than his Irish one, but players immediately distrusted him and they had to change to a more trustworthy one. Given that Atlas reveals himself as the villain halfway into the game, having the player trust him was a significant part of the narrative. | |
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Destroy All Humans!—Although most if not all the humans your alien protagonist vaporizes are appropriately stupid, with most of them carrying around pretty vapid thoughts ("I Like Ike!") in their heads, your first mission takes place in an area called Turnipseed Farm, where you encounter incompetent mayors, violent farmers, ignorant housewives, ditzy teens, corrupt cops, and easy to fool cowboys. Slightly inverted because the area is located in the midwest instead of the Deep South. And, in light of the "I Like Ike!" snippet described above, it's worth pointing out that the South was one of the few places where Dwight Eisenhower was not popular during the 1950s. |
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Brown's Pine Ridge Stories: This anthology of stories (all set in rural southern Georgia) runs on this trope. An example that somewhat lampshades this: "Once a year we came under attack from the North! No, not Yankees, I'm talking about the Goat Man." | |
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Squidbillies This is one of the biggest offenders. Every single character, with the exception of the very smart, business-good, but arrogant and petty Dan Halen, is either inbred, a moron, a criminal, or as politically incorrect as can possibly be, and combinations of any of these are hardly uncommon. | |
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The Beverly Hillbillies: The early seasons featured Mr. Drysdale and Miss Hathaway as the straight men, looking on at those wacky hillbillies and how unfamiliar they were with the big city. They eventually shifted to Jed being the straight man, solving problems because his homespun wisdom made him smarter than city folk, with Mr. Drysdale being a comic character. Later on, much of the humor of the Clampetts' unfamiliarity with the modern world came from making fun of the stranger aspects of the modern world, like when the Clampetts meet a bunch of hippies.Of course, as the title of the series states, the Clampetts are, specifically, "Hillbillies". That is, rural Appalachian hillfolk rather than just generic Southerners. The Clampetts were from Tennessee (The Movie incorrectly says Arkansas - whose hillfolk instead come from the Ozarks, which also stretch into Missouri), but Appalachian culture goes as far north as Ohio and Pennsylvania, so it's not even an exclusively "Southern" stereotype. In the vein: while many people not from the South are familiar with (and make fun of) the Southern use of the plural second-person pronoun "y'all" (a contraction of 'you all'), far fewer know of the much less common "you'uns (a contraction of 'you ones'). The second is used by people from Knoxville, Tennessee in the Cumberland and Great Smoky Mountains to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (where it's famously contracted even further to "yinz") in the Allegheny Mountains, all part of the Appalachian Range. |
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Judd "Scanner" Sandage, one of the principal side characters in the Fortunes of War books, is basically a hillbilly in a Starfleet uniform, complete with thick accent, garrulous mannerisms, and a bit of a lack of boundaries, but he knows his stuff when it comes to sensors and is a competent officer overall. | |
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The Flintstones featured two episodes revealing Fred's paternal ancestors were hillbillies from the state of "Arkanstone", and that they were all wiped out in a long-running feud with the Hatrock family. Said feud was revived when the Flintstones and Rubbles visit Arkanstone to claim an estate Fred had inherited. Although "Arkanstone" works as a typical Flintstones Punny Name, it's also a case of geographical artistic license (or Rule of Funny) since the Hatfield/McCoy feud occurred along the Tug River, which forms part of the border between Kentucky and West Virginia (both culturally very Southern but historically ambiguous), nowhere near Arkansas. |
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Hurk Drubman Jr., first introduced in Far Cry 3, is a Cloudcuckoolander Blood Knight with a Southern accent who teams up with Jason Brody to battle Hoyt Volker's privateers in hopes of getting Rakyat tattoos and the chance of having sex with Citra. He's quite a friendly individual, if disturbingly obsessed with using monkeys as bombers. He pops up again in future games as the one character establishing continuity between the different settings and plots of the series. Hilariously, Far Cry Primal reveals that his ancestor Urki had the same accent, despite Urki being from prehistoric Central Europe. And then Far Cry 5 reveals that Hurk and his family are from Montana. To add to the Mind Screw, his voice actor is Canadian. | |
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In Daughter for Dessert, Whiskeyville seems to be here. It’s a sleepy little town with a diner and not much else, and Olivia, who fixes their jukebox, speaks with a drawl and wears sexy cowgirl clothes. | |
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Far Cry: Hurk Drubman Jr., first introduced in Far Cry 3, is a Cloudcuckoolander Blood Knight with a Southern accent who teams up with Jason Brody to battle Hoyt Volker's privateers in hopes of getting Rakyat tattoos and the chance of having sex with Citra. He's quite a friendly individual, if disturbingly obsessed with using monkeys as bombers. He pops up again in future games as the one character establishing continuity between the different settings and plots of the series. Hilariously, Far Cry Primal reveals that his ancestor Urki had the same accent, despite Urki being from prehistoric Central Europe. And then Far Cry 5 reveals that Hurk and his family are from Montana. To add to the Mind Screw, his voice actor is Canadian. Funnily enough, another character from Far Cry 5 also qualifies as this: Father Joseph Seed, who is from Georgia, and it shows in the game's ending and when all three of his siblings have been killed, when his true accent starts slipping out. Ironically, Joseph's voice actor is also Canadian. |
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The 30 Rock episode "Stone Mountain" features Liz and Jack visiting Kenneth's hometown of Stone Mountain, Georgia, which is portrayed as being a small town full of white rednecks. This actually ends up being an example of Television Geography, as in real life Stone Mountain is a suburb of Atlanta and is over 50% Black. | |
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A Streetcar Named Desire | |
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Pennsatucky from Orange Is the New Black comes from a community like this. | |
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The much-beloved To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee focuses partially on racism revolving around a falsely-accused black man. | |
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Scare Tactics (DC Comics): Fang comes from a clan of hillbilly werewolves somewhere in the Appalachians. When the band unwittingly returns there, he is captured by his family and dragged off for a Shotgun Wedding. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000—Joel, Mike and the Bots would take jabs at the Deep South anytime a movie featuring the stereotypes was screened. Since absolutely everyone—fat or thin, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, smart or dumb—gets lampooned equally on the show, it's not worth getting worked up about. | |
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Doug TenNapel's Creature Tech thoroughly subverts this with the town of Turlock. First, the town's sub-literate rednecks turn out to be more accepting of a giant insect-man than the protagonist is. Second, several townspeople are revealed to be quite intelligent: the pastor was formerly a biologist, and another man taught himself quantum mechanics. Third, Turlock is actually in rural California. | |
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Dr. Leonard McCoy of Star Trek: The Original Series exemplifies mostly good aspects of Southern stereotypes: humane, passionate, polite, and a great cook, although with a mild streak of racism directed against Vulcans and androids. | |
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Seen in several Murder, She Wrote episodes, except that garrulous New Englanders who interfere in everyone's business don't come to horrible ends. | |
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Oklahoma!note Its twangy dialect aside, the "Southern-ness" of the actual state is debatable, due to it being settled largely from non-southern Kansas. | |
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Mississippi Burning is set in the deep south and tackle racism and Small Town Tyrants. | |
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Futurama: Pays a visit to the submerged, forgotten city of... Atlanta. Yes, Atlanta, largest city in Georgia and a major metropolitan area. Apparently the 1000-year timeskip has regressed this city back into a municipality inhabited by southern dandies, as all the "quality" people (and Jane Fonda) left when they airlifted the entire city out to float the ocean, built too much on it, and it sank. Also they all evolved into mermaids due to the proximity of the Coca-Cola bottling plant. Appropriately, the episode this is from is called "The Deep South". Another big example in Futurama: the backwards redneck farmer... on the Moon. There is even a Confederate jack painted over his lunar car. The Moon will rise again! |
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Hannah Montana never lets you forget the main character's Southern roots (specifically, Tennessee). Taken to extremes when a snooty set of parents spent the entire episode mocking The Deep South. Interestingly enough, Disney apparently originally tried to make Miley Cyrus speak in that standard bland SoCal dialect that all their other personalities use, but even the most rigorous dialog coaching failed to erase her accent, so they just gave up. Miley herself in interviews and in Real Life will self-deprecatedly refer to her accent or Southern culture as "hillbilly" (though she certainly is proud of her roots). Accounts on her Twitter feed that she follows and YouTube videos she favorites show a fascination with the South (serious or tongue-in-cheek). |
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Ultimate X Men: Unlike classic Juggernaut who hails from New York, this one hails from the South like Rogue, even referring to himself and her as "trailer trash who made good." | |
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The Glass Menagerie | |
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True Life had an episode called "The Theriot Family: The Riot in the Bayou" about a large Louisiana family that likes to have fun. They fall into most of the stereotypes of the South as well as some New Orleans stereotypes. | |
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Preacher: Hoo boy. Among others, coveralls-wearing swamp warfare expert T.C. who'll screw anything (including, but not limited to: a chicken, a fish, (possibly) a one-eyed boy's eye socket, a birthday cake...), a fundamentalist matriarch, Klansmen (including one who has sex with meat piled into the shape of a woman and his Nazi secretary), and a family of hillbillies so inbred their kids only have one eye (and they're among the most sympathetic people you'll ever meet). | |
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Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is set in an alien version of this, populated by hillbilly chicken people and toadlike outlaws. | |
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Victoria sees the downfall of the decayed future United States, and one of the successor states is a reformed New Confederacy which invokes every stereotype relating to this trope, from the Southern Gentleman to The Klan. The protagonist is a Yankee, but visits the South and aids them in their battles against their home-grown Dirty Communists. | |
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The Witch of Knightcharm: One of the members of Lily's clique of evil witches is Lucille Ballard, an imperious girl from Mississippi with a thick accent who occasionally drops southernisms (like saying 'bless your heart' to a rival classmate that she's in the process of killing via magic). | |
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StarCraft: The Terrans are the Deep South Recycled In Space. Nearly all the Terrans are apparently from the Deep South; many of the heroic and the villainous Terrans use syntax and expressions stereotypically attributed to Deep Southerners. In the expansion pack, the non-Terran humans are European, specifically Russian and German—and are almost universally evil. The United Earth Directorate is, more or less, a mishmash of Commie Land and Nazi Germany. Not every Terran has a Southern accent though: Sarah Kerrigan does not, and Jim Raynor's is debatable, as his accent is a sort of "Generic Rural" that can sound vaguely Southern at times (listen to him say "right on"). Tell you what, it's an Indiana accent. Southern Indiana. Basically Midwestern, but with a few traces of Southern from the dialect of Indiana's original Virginian settlers. If the Battlecruiser voices are any indication, there are also some Russians lumped in with them as well. The wiki even mentions traces of Japanese culture. Still, it seems that much of Terran civilization is dominated by heavy American (i.e., Southern) influences. StarCraft II's SCV amplifies the redneck stereotypes, including telling you "You got a purdy mouth" if you annoy him. The Terran Confederacy were originally comprised of prisoners who crash landed in the Korprulu Sector. It is pointed out that the Terran Confederacy (using a modified Confederate States Army naval Jack as their flag) is considered corrupt, is plagued by several rebel groups, has nuked a rebelling planet (Korhal) and is eventually overthrown by the even worse Terran Dominion. Actually, most of the human factions are shown as more or less evil, except Raynor's Raiders. |
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The Magician: In "Lightning on a Dry Day", a hospital patient is spooked senseless by the fire in one of Tony's charity magic acts. His investigation into the young man's past leads him to a small Town with a Dark Secret somewhere in Appalachia that is riddled with suspicious residents, including a corrupt sheriff and an Evil Matriarch, and the nystery centres around illegal moonshine production. | |
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Down by Law takes place in Louisiana and features a lot of Scenery Porn of the swamps and a little of New Orleans. | |
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Deadly Premonition 2 takes place in Louisana, and all the stereotypes associated with the region, both positive and negative, are shown or subverted. This example is interesting because SWERY, the developer, actually physically visited the Deep South with his team to do research prior to finishing the game. According to his stream, he chose the area because he wanted a niche region of the US that even some Americans would consider somewhat exotic. |
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Forrest Gump - which, of course, takes place from the 1950s to the 1980s, so it covers an entire generation's worth of social change in the South and elsewhere. | |
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In Timber Falls, everyone dwelling the West Virginia backwoods is either a fundamentalist religious maniac or a Hillbilly Moonshiner. | |
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Left 4 Dead 2 chronicles the journey of four survivors of a Zombie Apocalypse making their way from Savannah, Georgia to New Orleans. Two of the characters are Southerners: Ellis, an overly energetic mechanic who loves guns, rambles at length about "mah buddy Keith", and is generally too good-natured to be a Good Ol' Boy, and Coach, an African-American high school football coach who loves food and plays the role of Team Dad. They are joined by two Northerners, Rochelle, a reporter from Cleveland, Ohio who takes on the dual roles of the Team Mom, and Nick, a Vegas con-artist and borderline Guido Deadpan Snarker. Much of the humor in the game is based on Rochelle and Nick's observations of the Deep South views vs. Ellis and Coach's Sweet Home Alabama views. The latter two share a somewhat stereotypical love for NASCAR and southern music, Ellis going so far as to wish he were a woman so he could have his favorite racer's children. Nick makes fun of a more repulsive southern stereotype in the "tunnel of love" section of the Dark Carnival campaign by saying that the tunnel was created for hillbillies and noting that it used to give discounts for cousins. In the second level of the game, one possible dialog has Ellis say he knows of a gun store where they can get better equipped. Nick snarks "Looks like living in this place is finally paying off", taking a stab at the stereotypical Southerner's gun obsession, and Coach doesn't like it, though he's civil about it. The places they pass through, however, are less Deep South than they are Southern Gothic. | |
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Referenced more than a few times on Good Eats. The "polenta/grits" episode begins with Alton being invited in by a family ("Southern Hospitality") for breakfast, and pissing them off by saying that grits and polenta are the exact same thing. In two episodes, he contrasts regional differences between the North and South with banana pudding note Up north, they like it refrigerated, with whipped cream. Down south, the dish is baked, and the whipped cream is replaced with meringue. and chicken-and-dumplings. note Up north, the dumplings take inspiration from choux pastry; they're thick and fluffy. Down south, the dumplings are more noodle-like. In the (after-) Thanksgiving Episode, Alton, his "relatives," and his TV crew are Snowed-In...by which we mean there was an inch of snow on the ground, because this is Georgia. He also did an episode dedicated to gumbo, and an episode dedicated to rice and beans, two dishes heavily influenced by the Cajun and Creole cultures found in the region. And when the recipe is distinctly Southern, such as fried catfish, mint juleps, or ambrosia, expect Alton's "uncle" Col. Bob Boatright (a parody of KFC's Col. Sanders) to appear. | |
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Appears 2000 years in the future in Thundarr the Barbarian, when the hero in question encounters a Small-Town Tyrant sheriff in the populated ruins of 'Lanta. | |
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In the Heat of the Night. Virgil Tibbs is arrested because he's black. Back home in Philadelphia, he's a homicide detective. | |
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Leverage's "The Bank Shot Job" is set in a backwater town here, and features the team trying to bring down the Small-Town Tyrant judge. | |
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Pogo: Apart from the fact that we're dealing with talking animals here all action takes place in a typical Mississippi swamp, with alligators, opossums and the likes talking typical Southern slang. | |
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Borat has a number of scenes set in various "red states," including those specifically in the deep south, attempting to exploit stereotypical conservative attitudes. Borat dines with a family in the South and displays a wide range of boorish behavior, but they courteously endure him until be brings in a prostitute, at which point they kick him out. A cut scene has him try to adopt a dog from a kennel with the stated intention of defending himself from Jews, but the owner of the kennel chewed him out for such beliefs, which didn't fit the narrative. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm also has a few, such as a scene with a debutante ball in Georgia, to showcase a new rise in conservatism. |
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X and Pearl are primarily set in a small Texas farm owned by a particularly murderous couple. | |
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In the episode "Inherit the Judgement-The Dope's Trial," Duckman heads to the Deep South where he is put on trial for being an "eggolutionist." | |
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In Shadowrun, the Confederated American States (or CAS) are this. The Data Trails sourcebook details that their national matrix grid (designated "CASnet") is based on the pre-war South, ca. 1850. However, the designers of said grid had just enough tact to not depict any slaves. | |
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Much of Shy People takes place in a remote part of the Louisiana bayous, where Ruth and her clan live in virtual isolation from the outside world. | |
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The Punisher tends not to do very well when going south... he's met gun smugglers, raging homophobic ministers, an alligator-raising Cannibal Clan... | |
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Von Herling, Vampire Hunter: The setting is in the fictional town of Richten in Tennessee. When the local teens at a party catch on that August Von Herling is not from around there, they start teasing him. | |
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Alien Abduction (2014) takes place in the deep woods of North Carolina. Sean and his unseen brother Scott are both cabin-dwelling hunters and survivalists, and Sean freely uses terms like "slow" and "retarded" to describe the autistic Riley. | |
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Subverted in Nip and Tuck. The titular redneck foxes are erudite, intelligent, and informed, the local political zealot is a Democrat, no one much seems to mind people from different walks of life, and visitors get Southern Hospitality in spades. In other words, it's probably a better reflection of the South than you'll get anyplace else (except, you know...the actual South). On the other end of the spectrum, look no further than Gus Guthrie. As you might expect, the brothers' disdain for him stems as much from the fact that he's exactly what comes to mind when someone says "Deep South," as from the fact that this makes him a pain in the ass to rival casaba-sized hemorrhoids. | |
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Camp Camp: After spending most of the episode pretending to be a Kentuckian that was accidentally sent to Camp Campbell for a foreign exchange program, Brian reveals himself to be a Kentucky secessionist hoping to steal Cameron Campbell's fortune in order to fund his state leaving the union. He gains a much thicker accent and begins to embody all the stereotypes of the Deep South (except the racist parts). | |
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Blaster Knuckle is the story of a black man in the 1880's who battles demons who use the Ku Klux Klan to cover their flesh-eating tendencies on the nearest safe target. As one might expect, he has a bit of a PR problem. Oh, and the Deep South looks a lot more like the Wild West. | |
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Subverted in Survival of the Fittest with Margaret Tweedy, who was a favorite target of bullies at school largely because of her Southern roots, despite being neither stupid nor behind the times. Said bullying did, however, make her bitter and perpetually angry. | |
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Mostly subverted in Stroker and Hoop. For example when Hoop tries a pair of fake gross teeth to "fit in" his cousin that lives there is offended and even gets out a phone book to show they have plenty of dentists. | |
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An episode of Criminal Minds Zig-Zagged this. The episode centered on a feud between two stereotypical West Virginia hillbilly clans, who shot at federal agents and insisted on referring to JJ as "Mrs" rather than "Agent Jureau". The BAU come to the conclusion that the two are cooking crystal meth and the rivalry has spiraled into a drug war. Subverted when it turned out they were both making clean, efficient, bio-fuels. Then it went right back to playing it straight when the matriarch of one clan and the patriarch of the other are revealed to be brother and sister, and the Villain of the Week is their inbred son who was raised in the backwoods by a Crazy Survivalist. | |
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In the Heat of the Night deals with this even more than the original book and movie did, with racism and other traditions, good or ill, of the Deep South being a frequent theme and contrasted with the newer attitudes of the late eighties/early nineties. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy has the Kanker Sisters. The three live in a trailer park called Park N' Flush, May and Lee have Southern accents. May fits the image of a hillbilly best as she has 2 buck teeth and is very stupid. The cartoon's movie even reveals Lee has 3 eyes, implying that the Kanker Sisters were inbred. | |
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ER brought Dr. Benton to the backwater town of Pascagoula, Mississippi, where minorities were looked upon with suspicion and residents were wary of treatment from him. When this episode aired, it caused residents of the real Pascagoula (a medium-sized city) to protest its portrayal. | |
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Although the trope is based on an exaggerated stereotype, the Top Gear team proved that it's still not a good idea to drive around in Alabama with cars sporting such slogans as "NASCAR sucks" and "Manlove rules OK", to say nothing of "Hillary 4 President". They pulled in for gasoline and eventually had to flee while rocks were chucked at them. The jury's out on whether the locals kicked off as a result of being offended by what was written, or at being trolled with the stereotype... Strangely, the locals reacted most strongly to NASCAR being dissed, so maybe the stereotype of the Deep South has some Truth in Television to it. |
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The musical Finian's Rainbow is set in the fictitious state of Missitucky. What undoubtedly will help carry this Southern state "forward to yesterday" (to quote the stirring words of Senator Billboard Rawkins) are its poll tax, restrictive covenants and black servants carrying mint juleps (the traditional minstrel shuffling and "yawk, yawk" accents, however, are evidently not taught at Tuskegee). | |
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The stereotyped cruelty of the Deep South is used as both plot device and major driving force in the award-winning film Lawn Dogs. Many people in the gated community there are cruel, quick to judge, and look down upon hard-working lower-classman Trent. He is even beaten, twice, for things he didn't do. What's more, the screenwriter, who created the story, is from the Deep South herself. | |
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American Gothic (1995) takes rural Iowa as its inspiration. | |
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Poor Pretty Eddie is an exploitation film set in an isolated lodge and the nearby small town somewhere in the South. | |
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Somebody in the crew making True Blood must have been reading TV Tropes, because the opening credits show all clichés from the main entry, pretty much in the order they are listed. The Sookie Stackhouse novels - upon which True Blood is based - explores this trope as well, but with a far more balanced perspective. Though the show itself is more mixed. The small town of Bon Temps is up to date in technology and current events, the sheriff and the assistant sheriff are basically decent people, and you can count the number of episodes where people have a problem with the Camp Gay black guy in the kitchen on one hand. It's just that whole vampire thing that brings out the populous' more bigoted side. |
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Chapter 3 and 4 of Red Dead Redemption 2 storyline is primarily set in these parts, in particular the State of Lemoyne which heavily inspired by Louisiana and other Southern states. It even has an expy of New Orleans, the city of Saint Denis. There's also Scarlett Meadows, a mixed land of hills and bayou swamp where two inbred clans hate each others' guts, and traces of the Civil War and slavery can still be found. | |
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Decades of Darkness is an Alternate History story in which, during the War of 1812, all of the states northeast of Pennsylvania seceded and formed a Republic of New England while the British seized a large swath of the Midwest (including Detroit and Fort Dearborn) to later become part of Canada. The rump United States left behind, dominated by the planter aristocrats of Dixie, turns into an expansionist empire based in white supremacy in which slavery is still legal and celebrated well into the 20th century, by which point it has evolved into a racial caste system not unlike Latin America's thanks to its many conquests in that part of the world over the years. The culture of the ruling class is described as a mix of Southern gentry and the Hispanic criollos who collaborated with them. | |
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Grand Theft Auto VI: This isn't the first game in the series to be set in the Southern United States, but while previous depictions of Vice City, the Grand Theft Auto universe's version of Miami, were restricted to just the city alone, this game includes the surrounding countryside on top of it. Vice City may be a world unto itself, but the trailer demonstrates that the rest of the state of Leonida is still a Southern state, with muscle cars speeding through dusty rural towns, crazed rednecks driving lifted trucks, airboats running through the swamp, and a party held in a mud pit. | |
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Wally Gator has various characters like this, due to where some of the episodes were set. The main offender was a redneck turnip grower called Mr. Swampywater who was trigger-happy and angry, but there was also Harmony (a stereotypical Southern Belle alligator) and Beauregard (a beefy male alligator with tints of Southern-Fried Private who still wore the confederate symbol on his cap, although he wasn't exactly stupid). Wally himself is portrayed more at home in the Deep South outside of his title series, often being found in swamps in crossovers (like Yogi's Great Escape, which also showed him to be good at cooking things like gumbo) and excelling at events set in and around water, especially marshes (in Laff-A-Lympics). | |
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Seth from The Authority is pretty much the worst of Southern stereotypes blatantly distilled into a genetic freak of nature. Among other details, he was conceived from his uncles porking his mother and is shown to be homophobic and racist (he makes fun of Apollo and Midnighter for being gay and at one point says the N-word). | |
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Li'l Abner: The sheer definition of every possible Deep South cliché! | |
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Redneck Rampage, of course, rolls in this trope. | |
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Family Guy, set in Rhode Island but written by a bunch of Southern Californians. God, where to even start with this one: The show visits one of these locales in an episode entitled "To Live and Die in Dixie". The South is one of the series' favorite punching bags, and it receives a lot of low blows from the show. According to the show, the people in the South are still bitter about losing the The American Civil War, and are behind about a hundred years in terms of culture and technology. The neighborhood schoolkids, who go to class in a one-room schoolhouse note reality check: there are none in operation anywhere in the real South and haven't been in at least half a century, can be easily outsmarted by a pig, and their personal standards are so incredibly low that they think Meg is a goddess. That particular episode, though, also ended showing some of the South's positive qualities ("We look after our own!"), so it wasn't quite as low a blow as... some other episodes (see below). The episode "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows" has a (Emmy-winning) musical number that contains the throwaway line "The country's changed, that is, except the South", accompanied by a shot that looks like it belongs in "To Live and Die in Dixie". Despite not even going to the South this time, the episode "Airport '07" starts with Peter becoming a redneck, making fun of said stereotype. It comes up yet again in "Lois Kills Stewie", this time targeting North Carolina with a sign reading "First in Flight, 48th in Education" (note that this information was very out of date - at the time of the episode's 2007 airing, N.C. was ranked 24th in education). An amnesiac Lois is lost in North Carolina, but finds work at a fat camp for obese kids who keep trying to eat each other. She soon makes a friend at the local small-town diner, who turns out to be a white supremacist, and is assaulted with a blunt object after an anti-Semitic joke when she tries to point out that same train of thought started the Holocaust. This might be barely justified as part of Stewie's virtual-reality simulation of what'd happen if he tried to kill Lois, but it's never treated as an inaccuracy. It certainly fits in with the rest of the show's treatment of the South, and, if anything, is even meaner-spirited than those earlier portrayals. There are no ridiculous accents this time, at least. note In reality, there are Klan chapters in every single state in the country, not just the South; the Klan reached the pinnacle of their power in Indiana in the 1920's, not Mississippi in the 1960's; those blonde twin girls who sing White Power songs are from California. The episode "Boys Do Cry" is set in Texas. You can tell the writers had a fun time with that one. "Back to the Pilot" hits two of the writers' favorite targets, the South and George W. Bush, at the same time. Brian manages to prevent 9/11 by warning himself in 1999; this causes Bush to lose the 2004 election because he didn't have the threat of terrorism with which to scare people, so he turns the Deep South into a new Confederacy and enters a nuclear war with the United States that ruins the country. If that wasn't enough, they've been doing it from the very first episode! The episode "Cool Hand Peter" revolves around the stereotypical corrupt sherrif interring the Peter, Joe, Cleveland and Quagmire, and there's a Deleted Scene that parodied Deliverance: |
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StarCraft II's SCV amplifies the redneck stereotypes, including telling you "You got a purdy mouth" if you annoy him. | |
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The Dragon Ball Z dub took Android 13's "trucker" look as an excuse to give him a Southern accent, leading Trunks to call him a "Red-Ribbon redneck". | |
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The villains in inFAMOUS 2 are Anti Mutant Rednecks. | |
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Larry Shue's The Foreigner takes place in rural Georgia, featuring KKK members as the villains. | |
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Justified tries to provide a more nuanced portrayal, with the corruption, backwardness, and economic despair of Harlan County, Kentucky (actually in the very heart of Appalachia) having more to do with the place being a veritable Wretched Hive, than all Southerners being innately bigoted or criminal. The fact that Raylan and his fellow US Marshals are from the south helps to balance things out, as well. | |
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The Heart, She Holler portrays the South so negatively that it makes Deliverance look like a tourist ad. | |
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Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! features team member Fastback, whose real name is "Timmy Joe Terrapin" and hails from the "Okey-Dokey" swamp in Earth-C's American south. Timmy Joe usually is shown (when not in superhero action) as perpetually-unemployed or between-jobs, and has a hayseed personality/speaking voice. The trope is partially averted in the 2007 miniseries (where he starts his own express delivery service company), as well as perhaps fully averted by fellow southern teammate Alley-Kat-Abra (who hails from "Mew Orleans"). The series also mentions several Earth-C southern cities, including "Memfish" (Memphis) and "Tallahatchee" (Tallahassee, Florida), along with Mew Orleans. |
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