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Status: [[Corrupt Hick|Nearly]] [[Fat Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit|extinct]]. Some are still known to moonlight as [[Simple Country Lawyer|simple country lawyers]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[Trope Maker]]: [[Gone with the Wind|Rhett Butler]]. The whole point of the character was that he wasn't exactly a gentleman, but he still fits the trope.
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* 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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== [[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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