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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 Aa Gentleman]].
 
Status: [[Corrupt Hick|Nearly]] [[Fat Sweaty Southerner in Aa White Suit|extinct]]. Some are still known to moonlight as [[Simple Country Lawyer|simple country lawyers]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[Trope Maker]]: [[Gone Withwith the Wind|Rhett Butler]]. The whole point of the character was that he wasn't exactly a gentleman, but he still fits the trope.
** Ashley fits as well.
* Buck Cantrell from the Bette Davis film ''Jezebel'' is a classic example.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[The McCoy|Dr Leonard McCoy]] from ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]''.
* Lucas Buck masquerades as one in ''[[American Gothic]]''.
* Bill Compton from [[True Blood]] is a variation, he's probably the most polite vampire ever.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Sinclair from ''[[Bio ShockBioshock]] 2'', one of the [[Voice Withwith an Internet Connection|Voices With An Internet Connection]] who helps you throughout the game.
* Clem from ''[[The Suffering]]''.
* Arcturus Mengsk of ''[[Starcraft]]'' is portrayed as one, with him going so far as to wear clothes resembling a CSA general's outfit.
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