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Do ''not'' try to knock up one of the local girls there, or you will disappear, or, at the very least, [[Shotgun Wedding|be married to her for the rest of your life, whether you like it or not]]. Sex is [[Serious Business]] down there.
 
So ''don't'' complain about the war overseas, ''don't'' admit that you think ''[[Queer as Folk]]'' is "like, totally awesome", ''don't'' try to explain how [[Useful Notes/Neo-Paganism|Paganism]] has nothing to do with devil worship, and ''don't'' go out to the secluded farm house when your car breaks down in the rain... Unless the [[Sacred Hospitality|Southern Hospitality]] is being played up, that is.
 
People will often have two names, with men having the second name [[Everything's Better with Bob|Bob]] (Jim Bob, Joe Bob, Billy Bob) and girls will have Mae (Billie Mae, Bobbie Mae, Bettie Mae).
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** Friedman obviously never took into account the true story of Mount Airy, the North Carolina town after which Mayberry was modeled. Besides being the hometown of Andy Griffith, it was also the retirement spot for Chang and Eng, two conjoined Thai brothers and circus performers who were the original "Siamese twins." By all accounts, Chang and Eng enjoyed a pleasant retirement and were never persecuted either for being Asian or being "freaks."
*** It may have helped that they were quite wealthy (at least until after the civil war).
* ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew (Comic Book)|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 "[[The Big Easy|Mew Orleans]]").
** The series also mentions several Earth-C southern cities, including "Memfish" (Memphis) and "Tallahatchee" (Tallahassee, Florida), along with Mew Orleans.
* 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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* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-570997817440305842 Alabama Man] from the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Chinpokomon".<ref>"Not all people from Alabama are wife-beaters."</ref>
** 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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