History Main / SweetHomeAlabama

* All of Charlaine Harris's books, the most famous being the Sookie Stackhouse series.

* The Terrans from StarCraft Embrace this trope, then mix it with HeavyMetal for some reason.

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* When ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' wasn't making the characters ridiculous characters it was showing the sense of honor and hospitality people have in the Southern US.

Not to be confused with the 2002 film ''Sweet Home Alabama'' or the song by Music/LynyrdSkynyrd.

The DeepSouth in a (usually) more positive light. The Rural South in the United States is a land of [[GoodOlBoy honest, down-to-earth folks]], unlike the pretentious {{City Slicker}}s in New York or "New South" {{Atlanta}}. [[CloseKnitCommunity Some may have their little quirks, but everyone takes those in stride]]. When one wants to escape [[ViceCity the morally bankrupt superficiality of city life]] and get in touch with one's true self, the South is the place to go to.

* "Georgia on My Mind" by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell, made famous by RayCharles, which was made the official state song in 1979, although originally written about Carmichael's sister, Georgia Carmichael.

->'''Lyons''': Gentlemen, you ask me about the South. It is the land of romance, of roses and honeysuckle, of Southern chivalry and hospitality, fried chicken and waffles, salad and coffee.\\
'''Lippman''': No dessert?

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* ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' is set in a post-apocalyptic future that bears an uncanny resemblance to late 19th century Dixie.
** Ironically enough, Nochis (the town where the story begins) is placed in [[{{Joisey}} New Jersey]] on official maps.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Pogo}}'' leans more this way, although some of the Okeefenokee Swamp denizens are less than brilliant. Most of them are SweetHomeAlabama, with elements of TheDeepSouth every so often coming in.
* Similar conditions in ''ComicStrip/LilAbner''. Dogpatch, Kentucky may be full of unrefined, impoverished hillbillies, but in general they're pretty nice people.

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* [[TheFlash Bart Allen]] was sent to live in Manchester, Alabama (which ''is'' real, despite what ''Impulse'' #1 claims) with his mentor Max Mercury (Max specifically chose it for reasons made clear in issue 16). This is deliberate; the series is based off Mark Waid's childhood in the South.
** ''Manchester'', is the NoCommunitiesWereHarmed substitute for the actual city of Birmingham (which like Bart's town, has a statue of Vulcan on top of a really high pillar in the middle of town and was also named after an English city).

* In ''Film/TheLegendOfBaggerVance'', Will Smith gets on fine in 1930s Savannah, Georgia.

* Similar conditions in ComicStrip/{{LilAbner}}. Dogpatch, Kentucky may be full of unrefined, impoverished hillbillies, but in general they're pretty nice people.

* Most of Marvel's Southern heroes play up this aspect of the south. Namely, ComicBook/{{X-Men}} members Rogue (from Mississippi), Cannonball, Husk, and Icarus (the last three being siblings from Kentucky).

Unfortunately, it's starting to become something of a DiscreditedTrope after [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting a 2015 shooting]] at an African-American church by a white nationalist that killed nine people. The South's [[StillFightingTheCivilWar ugly racial history]] was brought to the forefront when the shooter claimed white power as his motivation, along with the American Flag being at half-mast at the South Carolina capitol building [[UnfortunateImplications while the Confederate Flag was at full-staff]]. Eventually, the Confederate Flag was taken down and retailers stopped selling merchandise related to the flag.

* ''GoneWithTheWind''
* ''TheBlindSide'': Well, it's actually Tennessee, but still. The film also has elements of DeepSouth.
* The fictional Crowley Corners, Tennessee from HannahMontana the movie is one of these places. Actual filming was done in the city of Columbia, about 50 miles south of Nashville.
* ''SmokeyAndTheBandit'': Coming out in 1977, it was probably the first film out of Hollywood in 20 years to show the South as a fun place.

* ''CookiesFortune'': If Atlanta is "the city too busy to hate", Holly Springs is the town too lazy to hate. Everyone's laid back with everyone else, and ethnic prejudice is nonexistent.

* ''ForrestGump''

* ''MidnightInTheGardenOfGoodAndEvil'': Both the (nonfiction) novel and the movie.

* ''MyCousinVinny'': plays it both ways. Some of the Southerners are portrayed as rednecks and somewhat dim but the rest are presented as decent folks. The Northerners act more like stereotypical New Yawkers. It's basically stereotype vs. stereotype and [[HilarityEnsues played for laughs]].

* ''Steel Magnolias''
* ''TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton''

* ''WhereTheHeartIs''

* ''LookingForAlaska'', set in a boarding school in Alabama.

* ''Doc Hollywood''

* Parodied in "Southern Fried Cruella" on the animated ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' in which Cruella De'vil tried to convince a magazine editor giving out an award for humanitarianism that she was just a "good ol' sugar borrowing neighbor" of the Dearlys and failing miserably.

* [[TheMcCoy Dr. [=McCoy=]]] of ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' has a slight Southern accent (which was [=DeForest=] Kelley's natural accent; he was from Atlanta) and is a self-described "simple country doctor" from the "Old South" where he attended the University of Mississippi. He is presumably from this version of the South.
* Raytown in ''MamasFamily''.
* Mayberry, North Carolina in ''TheAndyGriffithShow'', based on Andy Griffith's actual home town of Mount Airy, North Carolina.
* Hooterville in ''GreenAcres'' and ''Series/PetticoatJunction''.
* ''EveningShade''.
* When ''TheDukesOfHazzard'' wasn't making the characters ridiculous characters it was showing the sense of honor and hospitality people have in the Southern US.
* ''HeeHaw''.
* Sergeant Eugene "Sledgehammer" Sledge of ''ThePacific'' is, appropriately enough, from Alabama. His family is portrayed as honest, hardworking folk. His family also has [[ValuesDissonance Black menservants]], but they don't treat them badly.

* As well as the more well-known ''DuckDynasty'', set in Louisiana.
* Pretty much every time Blanche talks about her childhood in Atlanta on ''TheGoldenGirls''.

* The TropeNamer is the song [[http://popup.lala.com/popup/432627043556415892 "Sweet Home Alabama"]] by the Southern Rock band Music/LynyrdSkynyrd. (The film, above, was also named for it.) The song was a [[TakeThat rebuttal]] to NeilYoung's songs "Alabama" and "Southern Man".

* Although the program is never stated to be anywhere other than [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield "Lake Hoohaw,"]] many of the characters of ''[[WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter PB&J Otter]]'' speak with a southern United States sort of accent and advocate a style of life that seems to match very closely with the best ideals of Southern hospitality. Additionally, much the show's music, particularly the instrumental cues, has a southern twang to it.

* WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic: the earth pony communities of southern Equestria, and any rural Apple family household.

** There ''is'' a mountain, so it's not a perfect replication.

* The CMT reality show ''Sweet Home Alabama,'' naturally

* ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' by Harper Lee.

* The Terrans from StarCraft Embrace this trope, then mix it with Music/HeavyMetal for some reason.