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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. {{spoiler|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.
* ''[[Song of the South]]'' became Disney's [[Redheaded Stepchild]] film due to its portrayal of [[Unfortunate Implications|happy sharecroppers]] (idealizing Reconstruction-era racism in the Deep South). The movie contains [[Magical Negro|Uncle Remus]] stories about Br'er Rabbit [[Briar Patching|("Please don't throw me in the briar patch!")]] and gave us the [[Ear Worm]] "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah", which incidentally is the ''only'' part of the film in the past couple decades that Disney has allowed to see the light of day in America.
* [[Harold and& Kumar Go to White Castle]] visit the Deep South when they ''Escape from Guantanamo Bay'', and encounter, among other things, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|a Ku Klux Klan rally, an inbred mutant child, and Neil Patrick Harris]].
* ''[[Forrest Gump]]''
* ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]?'' takes place in the 1930's Deep South (it's never outright stated where), and was largely shot in Mississippi.
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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).
* Larry Shue's ''[[The Foreigner]]'' takes place in rural Georgia, featuring KKK members as the villains.
* ''[[Oklahoma!]]''<ref>Its twangy dialect aside, the "Southern-ness" of the actual state is debatable, due to it being settled largely from non-southern Kansas.</ref>
* [[Tennessee Williams]] was from Mississippi, and all of his plays are set in the Deep South.
** ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[StarcraftStarCraft]]'' - the Terrans are the Deep South [[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. Keep in mind, there are no references to specific cultural features of the real life Deep South - racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. Focus is almost solely on the accent: the [[Sergeant Rock|Good Guy]] in the setting is a southern Terran with a distinct accent, while General Duke, an evil character, also has a very, ''very'' thick accent right out of a Civil War movie. 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 mish-mash of [[Commie Land]] and [[Those Wacky Nazis|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.
** 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 [[It Got Worse|overthrown by the even worse]] [[The Empire|Terran Dominion]]. Actually, most of the human factions [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|are shown as more or less evil]], except [[La Résistance|Raynor's Raiders]].
* The villains in ''[[Infamous (video game series)|inFamous 2]]'' are Anti Mutant Rednecks.
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