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Compare [[Flyover Country]], as both regions might as well be Jupiter for screenwriters from the coasts, and [[Oop North]], which often receives many similar stereotypes in British media. Contrast [[Sweet Home Alabama]]. For the vicious [[Nightmare Fuel]] version, try [[The Savage South]].
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== Anime ==
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== Comic Book ==
* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]''
* 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]].
* Seth from ''[[The Authority]]'' is pretty much the worst of Southern stereotypes blatantly distilled into a genetic freak of nature.
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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]] 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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* [[Justified (TV)|Justified]] does this, although it's much more nuanced than many other TV shows.
* ''[[ER]]'' brought Dr. Benton to the backwater town of Pascagoula, MS, 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.
* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' has had more than a few hillbilly jokes thrown up, but [[N
{{quote| ''[[Scenes from a Hat" suggestion: "Visions of Hell other than fire and brimstone.]]''<br />
'''Colin:''' (miming driving) Mississippi... I'm ''still'' in Mississippi...<br />
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* The villains in ''[[In Famous (Video Game)|inFamous 2]]'' are Anti Mutant Rednecks.
* ''[[Oddworld]]: Stranger's Wrath'' is set in an alien version of this, populated by hillbilly chicken people and toadlike outlaws.
* ''[[Left 4 Dead|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 "[[The Munchausen|my 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 [[Team Dad]]. They are joined by two Northerners, Rochelle, a reporter from Cleveland, Ohio who takes on the dual roles of [[The Chick]] and [[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 Rochelle and Nick's [[Deep South]] views vs. Ellis and Coach's [[Sweet Home Alabama]] views. The 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. [[Jerkass|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", and Coach gravely responds "Mister, I don't like your attitude."
* ''[[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.
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** 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" ([[Did Not Do the Research|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 [[
** The episode "Boys Do Cry" is set in Texas.
** The recent episode "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 [[The War On Terror|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.
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== Other ==
* When the Olympics were held in Atlanta, the ''New Yorker'' had a cartoon ("Too Busy City") on the cover in sepia (like an old photo), with a hayseed with straw in his mouth at the Olympics, and at least one chicken. It received some very angry letters.
** On the other hand, when [[Jeff Foxworthy]] made very similar (if not worse) jokes about the very same subject, there was no uproar whatsoever as [[N
* In ''A Walk Across America'', Peter Jenkins described how he did just that, from New York to Louisiana. In the picture he paints of the South in the 1970s, certain parts play this trope straight; others avert it. In one town, a small contingency of police basically ordered him to leave and vaguely threatened to hang him if he didn't. In the next town, however, a hospitable family actually "adopted" him for a few months as he worked at a local factory to replenish his cash. In an Alabama town, he was threatened by a group of men, but when he explained to them that they were confirming this trope's stereotypes, they backed off. One of the men felt so bad about the incident he invited Jenkins to come eat with his family.
* The portrayal of churches as Baptist is pretty well justified. The only states in the country that are majority-Baptist are in the South, except Missouri (which is itself sometimes counted as part of the South, or at least parts of it are). Louisiana and Texas have long had large native Catholic populations that the rest of the South lacks. Florida is majority Catholic (due to the massive influx of Cubans and Northern retirees). Texas is split geographically: East Texas outside the major cities is overwhelmingly Baptist; Hill Country, most of the cities, South Texas, and the Rio Grande Valley are all staunchly Catholic.
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