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* The 2011 remake of ''[[Straw Dogs]]'' moves the setting from England to Mississippi. And the antagonists are a group of pickup truck driving redneck rapists.
* ''[[Requiem for a Dream]]'': The boys end up in a Southern prison, which doesn't take kindly to drug-addicted New Yorkers.
* ''[[Mississippi Burning]]'' & ''[[In the Heat of the Night]]'' both set in the deep south and tackle racism and [[Corrupt Hicks]].
* ''Southern Comfort'' pits a bunch of Nation Guardsmen against a gang of local [[Ragin Cajun]] s who don't take too kindly to outsiders invading their territory and stealing their boats.
* The screenwriter of the ''[[Cape Fear]]'' remake directed by Martin Scorsese admits as a "New York Jew", he wrote Max Cady to be a "Monster of the South" speaking in tongues like something out of a tent show revival.
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* ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' never lets you forget the main character's Southern roots (specifically, Tennessee). Taken to extremes when a snooty set of parents spent the entire episode mocking [[The Deep South]].
** Interestingly enough, Disney apparently originally tried to make Miley Cyrus speak in that standard bland SoCal dialect that all their other personalities use, but even the most rigorous dialog coaching failed to erase her accent, so they just gave up.
* [[Justified (TV series)|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?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' has had more than a few hillbilly jokes thrown up, but [[N-Word Privileges|Wayne Brady]] can always be counted on to provide his own unique spin on the trope:
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* [[Tom Lehrer]], "[http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/dixie.htm I Wanna Go Back to Dixie]."
* [[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.
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* For a [[Take That]] at "Sweet Home Alabama" itself, see Warren Zevon's "Play it All Night Long." The first line is "Grandpa pissed his pants again" and that sort of sets the tone.
* "Sweet home Alabama / Play that dead band's song..." Ironically, [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] is still touring, while [[Warren Zevon]] has been dead for years.
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* ''Death on the Mississippi'' and ''Till Death Do Us Part'' missions in ''[[Hitman]]: Blood Money''.
* ''[[Fallout 3]]'''s Colonel Augustus Autumn has a reasonable, and at times quite good, Virginia plantation accent. Somewhat strangely for a game set partly in the ruins of northern Virginia, no other character has an accent remotely like his.
** Something of a [[Truth in Television]], as DC and the associated metro areas in Maryland and northern Virginia (NoVa, as the locals call it) consists almost entirely of standard urbanized populations drawn from throughout the country to take jobs in the Federal government. Once you leave the DC metro area and head further south, there's a marked change in culture. In a map showing election results by county in Virginia, you'll see two blue sections in a sea of red - the suburbs of DC and [[Wacky College|Blacksburg]].
** The Point Lookout DLC is a straighter example, with its moonshining and subhuman "swampfolk" who tote double-barreled shotguns. However, it's based on a real-life location (Point Lookout State Park, MD) that remained Union territory during the Civil War, and arguably, like most subcultures in the Fallout universe, it has more to do with 200 years of isolation.
* ''[[Redneck Rampage]]'', of course, ''rolls'' in this trope.
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