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{{quote|'''Sam Donaldson:''' ''Governor Clinton, let's be frank. You're running for president, yet your only experience has been as the governor of a small, backward state with a population of drunken hillbillies riding around in pickup trucks. The main streets of your capital city, Little Rock, are something out of ''[[Li'l Abner]]'', with buxom underage girls in their cutoff denims prancing around in front of Jethro and Billy Bob, while corncob-pipe-smoking, shotgun-toting grannies fire indiscriminately at runaway hogs.''

 

The [[Deep South]]: home of fat redneck sheriffs, hillbillies, moonshiners, [[Politically-Incorrect Villain|Klan members]], tobacco-chawin' [[Good Ol' Boy]]s missing half their teeth, and all other manner of [[Corrupt Hick]]s, not to mention [[The Fundamentalist|fire-and-brimstone preachers]], [[Apron Matron|iron-bound matriarchs]], [[Fat Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit|white-suited plantation owners]], [[Southern Belle]]s in flouncy gowns or short-shorts with crop tops, and possums. Some [[Kissing Cousins]] could also be in the mix somewhere.

 

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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 [[I Am a Humanitarian|flesh-eating tendencies]] on the nearest safe target. As one might expect, [[Hero with Bad Publicity|he has a bit of a PR problem]]. Oh, and the Deep South looks a lot more like the Wild West.

 

* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]''

* 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 [[Hollywood California|California]].

'''Wayne:''' (singing) Oh, you won't find me in Alabamaaaa... }}

* ''[[True Life]]'' had an episode called "The Theriot Family: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|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.

* [[CMT]] has a tendency for these types of show, most of them were reality shows.

 

 

== Music ==

* [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]. Especially "[[Sweet Home Alabama]]", [[Trope Namer]] for more positive portrayals of the Deep South. As the quintessential Southern Rock band, their entire sound is pretty much synonymous with stereotypical "Southernness" nowadays, though whether you regard this as good or bad is a matter of opinion.

* [[Neil Young]]'s [[Protest Song]] "Southern Man", against which "Sweet Home Alabama" is partly a [[Take That]], is an opposing example, graphically portraying and condemning the abuses of slavery and racism.

* 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."

* ''[[Squidbillies]]''

** They did it again in "Worldwide Recorder Concert" where the class all travels to Arkansas, and Mr Garrison is forced to confront his father about molestation, {{spoiler|specifically, why his dad ''didn't'' molest him.}} The episode goes on to insinuate that Arkansans {{spoiler|other than Mr Garrison, Sr.}} are a bunch of child molesters.

* David Banner's ''That Crook'd Sipp'' was a [[One-Episode Wonder]] about the Beauregards, a dysfunctional family whose members embodied just about every unflattering Southern stereotype imaginable, from stuffy Old South plantation owners to unwashed rednecks.

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