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{{trope}}
A mythical creature of the male gender, the
Common vices: [[The Alcoholic|Drinking]] and/or [[The Gambler|gambling]].
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Notes: Subject to severe [[Values Dissonance]] for modern audiences, as, depending on time period, he is either a slaveholder or is nostalgic for the era of slavery (even if he doesn't harbor any actual racist views, the romanticism of the south's [[Golden Age]] is what matters).
Associated tropes: [[Deep South|Dixie accent]], [[Officer and
Status: [[Corrupt Hick|Nearly]] [[Fat Sweaty Southerner in
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[Trope Maker]]: [[Gone
** Ashley fits as well.
* Buck Cantrell from the Bette Davis film ''Jezebel'' is a classic example.
* Hatfield from ''[[Stagecoach]]'' (was based on Doc Holliday, below).
* Lotso, the [[Living Toys|Lots-o-Huggin' Bear]] from ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story 3]]''. [[Corrupt Hick|However...]]
* Doc Holliday from ''[[Tombstone]]''.
* "The Captain" from [[Thank You for Smoking]], right down to the mint julep {{spoiler|on his coffin}}
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[The McCoy|Dr Leonard McCoy]] from ''[[Star Trek:
* Lucas Buck masquerades as one in ''[[American Gothic]]''.
* Bill Compton from [[True Blood]] is a variation, he's probably the most polite vampire ever.
* The [[Sports Night]] episode 'Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee' includes two characters discussing that this trope as it relates to the Confederate flag and the history of the south. When Isaac points out to Danny that their CEO, Luther Sachs, is a southerner who likes to consider ''himself'' a
* Occasionally, on ''[[Good Eats]]'', if the recipe has definite Southern roots (fried catfish, for example), Alton Brown will dress and speak like one of these, an [[Affectionate Parody]] of Col. Sanders.
* Blanche's father, who was known as 'Big Daddy', on ''[[The Golden Girls]]''.
== [[Music]] ==
* Satirised in [[Tom Lehrer]]'s "I Wanna Go Back To Dixie", where the phrase refers to the Ku Klux Klan:
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And put that white sheet on again
Haven't seen me a good lynching in years! }}
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Sinclair from ''[[
* Clem from ''[[The Suffering]]''.
* Arcturus Mengsk of ''[[
* John Marston of ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'', despite being a former outlaw, can actually fit into this trope, with the clothing being the only other concern (in which case, you could put him in the gambler outfit or the duster).
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[wikipedia:Colonel Sanders|Colonel Sanders]] cultivated a Southern Gentleman persona for the latter part of his life, and this image now adorns KFC materials all over the place.
* General George C. Marshal was this as well as being an [[Officer and a Gentleman]]. He was a more pleasant variety of this, coming as he did quite a ways after the [[American Civil War|Unfortunate Unpleasantness]] that this trope is associated with to some degree.
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