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'''Bill Clinton:''' ''I'm sorry, Sam, do you have a question?''|''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', [http://snltranscripts.jt.org/92/92cdebate.phtml Debate '92].}}
The Deep South: home of fat redneck sheriffs, hillbillies, moonshiners, [[Politically
Although the real mid-southern and southeastern United States has a far wider range of locales and settings, the [[Deep South]] as it appears on TV is usually one tiny rural town after another, separated by miles of farmland or steep, forested mountainsides. Its inhabitants always seem to be about fifty years behind the times, at least as far as social issues are concerned, and some might even be fighting the [[The American Civil War|The Recent Un-Pleasantries]] still. This trope has major [[Unfortunate Implications]].
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So ''don't'' complain about the war overseas, ''don't'' admit that you think ''[[Queer As Folk]]'' is "like, totally awesome", ''don't'' try to explain how [[Useful Notes/Neo-Paganism|Paganism]] has nothing to do with devil worship, and ''don't'' go out to the secluded farm house when your car breaks down in the rain... Unless the [[Sacred Hospitality|Southern Hospitality]] is being played up, that is.
People will often have two names, with men having the second name [[
Any part of the region that is not rural, backwoods, mountains, or bayous shows up on TV as merely [[The City]] or [[Suburbia]] with an accent. The sprawling metropolises of [[Atlanta]] and Charlotte might as well not exist. And while Nashville and [[New Orleans]] do exist, they're not without stereotypes of their own: N'awlins being a [[
This is where the [[Southern
Outside southern Louisiana, the region usually averts [[Christianity Is Catholic]]. Whether white or black, the churches are usually either Baptist or Pentecostal.
Compare [[Flyover Country]], as both regions might as well be Jupiter for screenwriters from the coasts, and [[Oop North]], which often receives many similar stereotypes in British media. Contrast [[Sweet Home Alabama]]. For the vicious [[Nightmare Fuel]] version, try [[The Savage South]].
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