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* "The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia" by written by Bobby Russell and sung in 1972 by his then-wife Vicki Lawrence recounts a sad tale of poverty, adultery, murder, and corrupt public officials in the Deep South.
* Occurs in [[Insane Clown Posse (Music)|Insane Clown Posse]]'s "Chicken Huntin'", "Your Rebel Flag", and others. Additionally, the [[Psychopathic Records]] artist [[Boondox (Music)|Boondox]], simply is this trope personified.
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* Anthony and Those Other Guys [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqnWQgU5AOU&feature=plcp&context=C3982292UDOEgsToPDskLtPcZIM_hmZZGJkqDag9Pd Sunburn] which is loosely based on a real person.
* Tends to be a favorite setting for Randy Newman, especially his controversial hit "Rednecks" and the more subtle, but just as pointed, "Birmingham".
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** 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with a sign reading "First in Flight, 48th in Education" ([[Did Not Do the Research|note that this information was very out of date - at the time of the episode's 2007 airing, N.C. was ranked 24th in education]]).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 [[Godwin's Law|that same train of thought started the Holocaust]]. This might be ''barely'' justified as part of {{spoiler|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. <ref>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.</ref>
** 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.
* ''[[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 ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Jane Fonda]]) left when they airlifted the entire city out to float the ocean, built too much on it, and it sank. Appropriately, the episode this is from is called "The Deep South".
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