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17->''"Governor Clinton, let's be frank. You're running for president, yet your only experience has been as the governor of a small, backward state with a population of drunken hillbillies riding around in pickup trucks. The main streets of your capital city, Little Rock, are something out of ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'', with buxom underage girls in their cutoff denims prancing around in front of Jethro and Billy Bob, while corncob-pipe-smoking, shotgun-toting grannies fire indiscriminately at runaway hogs."''
18-->-- '''Sam Donaldson,''' ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', [[http://snltranscripts.jt.org/92/92cdebate.phtml Debate '92]]
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20The Deep South: home of [[DirtyCop corrupt, fat redneck sheriffs]], shotgun-toting [[HalfWittedHillbilly hillbillies]], [[HillbillyMoonshiner moonshiners]], TheKlan, tobacco-chawin' [[GoodOlBoy Good Ol' Boys]] missing half their teeth, and all other manner of [[SmallTownTyrant Small-Town Tyrants]] and [[LowerClassLout Lower-Class Louts]], not to mention [[TheFundamentalist fire-and-brimstone preachers]], [[ApronMatron iron-bound matriarchs]], [[FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit white-suited plantation owners]], [[StillFightingTheCivilWar Confederate revanchists]], {{Southern Belle}}s in either [[GorgeousPeriodDress flouncy gowns]] (in period works) or [[MsFanservice short-shorts with crop tops]] (in more modern ones), and possums. Some KissingCousins and other forms of HillbillyIncest could also be in the mix somewhere.
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22Although 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, desert, 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 (or worse, stuck in the WildWest era and/or fighting [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar The Recent Unpleasantries]]).
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24If you're a [[BourgeoisBohemian liberal urbanite from one of the coasts]], then this is probably the last place on Earth you'd ever want to visit. Especially if you belong to an ethnic, religious, and/or sexual minority. In fact, it ''will'' be the last place on Earth you'll ever go to if you piss off the locals, since everyone -- including the tobacco-chewing sheriff who glowered at you in the gas station -- is quite happy to make your godless, yuppie ass ''disappear'' if they take a dislike to your demeanor. The only people in the Deep South who don't carry guns are the axe- or [[ChainsawGood chainsaw-wielding]] {{serial killer}}s.
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26This scenario is also used to depict [[ValuesDissonance the cultural differences between the South and the North]]. Ironically, in the days when Puritanism was widespread in New England, the South would often be looked upon -- usually by New Englanders, of course -- as [[StereotypeFlip a land of moral laxity and even debauchery]]. It's worth noting, for example, that Christmas was celebrated as a public holiday in the South long before it was in New England, which the Puritans insisted had to be observed purely as a religious holiday because of the pagan origins of most secular Christmas traditions.
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28As an example; while pre-marital sexual encounters and casual one-night stands are common nowadays, sex is SeriousBusiness down there, with Southerners firmly believing in the golden rule of "marriage before sex" -- or at least, "marriage before childbirth" -- so do ''not'' try to knock up one of the local girls there, or you will [[ShotgunWedding be married to her for the rest of your life]] (Southerners are historically ''extremely'' averse to abortion and divorce--although since about the 1980s, the aversions to divorce and out-of-wedlock birth have dropped off, leading to some fairly high divorce rates and rates of out-of-wedlock childbearing). If the girl in question is a typical SouthernBelle, you are a really lucky guy; but if she is not any of these but [[{{Gonk}} a hillbilly as bucktoothed as the rest of their family]] ([[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome as in most of these cases]]), you'll have to marry anyways; if you try to run away, it's quite possible that they'll either maim or kill you. [[NotHyperbole No,]] [[SincerityMode really.]] [[HonorRelatedAbuse Their honor code demands it.]]
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30The highest figure of authority down there is the reverend of the local evangelical Protestant congregation (usually either Southern Baptist or Pentecostal), leading to the zone being often called the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Belt "Bible belt."]] Unlike the rest of the country, the MoralGuardians and the CulturePolice are ''actually'' supported and respected. So ''don't'' complain about the military, ''don't'' say how much you love Music/LilNasX, ''don't'' try to explain how [[UsefulNotes/NeoPaganism Paganism]] has nothing to do with devil worship, ''don't'' go out to the secluded farm house when your car breaks down in the rain, ''[[HeteronormativeCrusader don't]]'' [[BuryYourGays be gay]], and if you're a woman, ''don't'' [[StayInTheKitchen try to be anything other than a]] BabyFactory... Unless the [[SacredHospitality Southern Hospitality]] is being played up, that is.
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32[[HayseedName People will often have two names]], with men having the second name Bob (Jim Bob, Joe Bob, Billy Bob) and girls will have Mae (Billie Mae, Bobbie Mae, Bettie Mae).
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34Any part of the region that is not rural, backwoods, mountains, or bayous shows up on TV as merely TheCity or {{Suburbia}} with an accent; the modern, sprawling metropolises of UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} and UsefulNotes/{{Houston}} might as well not exist. And while UsefulNotes/{{Nashville}} and UsefulNotes/NewOrleans do exist, they're not without stereotypes of their own: N'awlins being a [[ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans party city]] with the occasional vampire or HollywoodVoodoo shenanigans, and Nashville only known for CountryMusic despite its diverse population, large healthcare industry, and PunkRock and HipHop scenes that rival the country one in size. As far as writers -- largely based in Southern California -- are concerned, the only true South is the Deep South. And any old state down there will do. Mississippi, UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|USA}}, UsefulNotes/{{Virginia}}, Maryland[[note]]Maryland was a slave state for much of its history and banned interracial marriages until well into the 1960s; but it was founded by Roman Catholics (who historically have been a minority in the South), stayed in the Union during the Civil War, and in more recent times has attracted New Yorkers as well as a diverse immigrant population from many countries throughout Europe, Asia, and Latin America thanks to the sprawl of Baltimore and most especially UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, and is now a deep blue state with high taxes and heavy-handed business regulations. For these reasons and others, it is often hard to determine whether it should be considered a Southern state or a Northern state; a Northerner will tell you it's Southern, a Southerner will tell you that it's Northern, and a Marylander will tell you that it's [[TakeAThirdOption Maryland]].[[/note]]...what's the difference?
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36This is where the SouthernFriedPrivate comes from; the SouthernFriedGenius is from here as well, although the South they know and grew up in is very often the "city/suburbia with an accent" flavor. Texas is part of this region, but it has enough of its own distinct stereotypes to warrant [[EverythingIsBigInTexas its own page]]. [[OnlyInFlorida Florida]] is similarly complicated. Its rural areas are as Deep South as it gets, especially in the Panhandle, but its major cities have [[OnlyInMiami their own quirks]] due to the influx of Northerners and Latin immigrants.
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38Outside southern Louisiana, the region usually averts ChristianityIsCatholic. [[UsefulNotes/AmericanChurches Whether white or black, the churches are usually either Baptist or Pentecostal]].
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40Compare FlyoverCountry and UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}}, as all three regions might as well be Jupiter for screenwriters from the coasts. For various British equivalents, see OopNorth, UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry or [[UsefulNotes/EastAnglia Norfolk]]. Contrast SweetHomeAlabama for the more idealized version of the South. For the vicious horror-themed version, try HillbillyHorrors, TheSavageSouth, SinisterSouthwest, or SouthernGothic.
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48* ''Manga/BlasterKnuckle'' is the story of a black man in the 1880's who battles demons who use the Ku Klux Klan to cover their [[IAmAHumanitarian flesh-eating tendencies]] on the nearest safe target. As one might expect, [[HeroWithBadPublicity he has a bit of a PR problem]]. Oh, and the Deep South looks a lot more like the Wild West.
49* The ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' dub took [[Anime/DragonBallZSuperAndroid13 Android 13's]] "trucker" look as an excuse to give him a Southern accent, leading Trunks to call him a "Red-Ribbon redneck".
50-->'''Android #13''': [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged Howdy there! I'm Android 13. Look at mah trucker hat]].
51* Yuuya Bridges, the Japanese-American pratagonist of ''Literature/MuvLuvAlternativeTotalEclipse'' grew up in the Deep South, which explains a few things about his identity issues and the chip on his shoulder.
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55* Seth from ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' is pretty much the worst of Southern stereotypes blatantly distilled into a genetic freak of nature. Among other details, he was conceived from [[HillbillyIncest his uncles porking his mother]] and is shown to be [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain homophobic and racist]] (he makes fun of Apollo and Midnighter for being gay and at one point says the N-word).
56* In ''ComicBook/BitchyBitch'', Marcie surely comes from the deep south. She's a stupid and extremely prejudiced (but cute) SouthernBelle type with a heavy accent.
57* ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' features team member Fastback, whose real name is "Timmy Joe Terrapin" and hails from the "Okey-Dokey" swamp in Earth-C's American south. Timmy Joe usually is shown (when not in superhero action) as perpetually-unemployed or between-jobs, and has a hayseed personality/speaking voice. The trope is partially averted in the 2007 miniseries (where he starts his own express delivery service company), as well as perhaps fully averted by fellow southern teammate Alley-Kat-Abra (who hails from "[[TheBigEasy Mew Orleans]]").
58** The series also mentions several Earth-C southern cities, including "Memfish" (Memphis) and "Tallahatchee" (Tallahassee, Florida), along with Mew Orleans.
59* The Sewell family of ''ComicBook/{{Copperhead}}'' are a SpaceWestern equivalent: a large family in an isolated, self-sufficient farmhouse far from civilization prone to fistfights both among themselves and against outsiders. They're also one-eyed and four-armed as a nod toward inbreeding stereotypes.
60* Doug [=TenNapel's=] ''ComicBook/CreatureTech'' thoroughly subverts this with the town of Turlock. First, the town's sub-literate rednecks turn out to be more accepting of a giant insect-man than the protagonist is. Second, several townspeople are revealed to be quite intelligent: the pastor was formerly a biologist, and another man taught himself quantum mechanics. Third, Turlock is actually in rural [[HollywoodCalifornia California]].
61* In the 1980s, Drew Friedman did a comic parody of ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' where Andy, Barney, and the good citizens of Mayberry take Klan vengeance on a black motorist with the temerity to stop in town. A good deal more caustic than most of Friedman's work.
62* Averted in ''Comicbook/GoldDigger.'' The Diggers family lives in Atlanta, but it's treated pretty much like any other big American city.
63* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'': Hoo boy. Among others, coveralls-wearing swamp warfare expert T.C. who'll screw anything (including, but not limited to: a chicken, a fish, (possibly) a one-eyed boy's eye socket, a ''birthday cake''...), [[TheFundamentalist a fundamentalist]] matriarch, Klansmen (including one who has sex with meat piled into the shape of a woman and his Nazi secretary), and a family of hillbillies so inbred their kids only have one eye (and they're among the most ''sympathetic'' people you'll ever meet).
64* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' tends not to do very well when going south... he's met gun smugglers, raging homophobic ministers, an alligator-raising CannibalClan...
65* ''ComicBook/ScareTacticsDCComics'': Fang comes from a clan of hillbilly werewolves somewhere in the Appalachians. When the band unwittingly returns there, he is captured by his family and dragged off for a ShotgunWedding.
66* ''ComicBook/VonHerlingVampireHunter'': The setting is in the fictional town of Richten in Tennessee. When the local teens at a party catch on that August Von Herling is not from around there, they start teasing him.
67* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Unlike classic Juggernaut who hails from New York, this one hails from the South like Rogue, even referring to himself and her as "trailer trash who made good."
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71* ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'': The sheer ''definition'' of every possible ''Deep South'' cliché!
72* ''ComicStrip/{{Pogo}}'': Apart from the fact that we're dealing with [[TalkingAnimal talking animals]] here all action takes place in a typical Mississippi swamp, with alligators, opossums and the likes talking typical Southern ''slang''.
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76* ''Film/AceVentura'': When Ace is tracking down Ray Finkle's latest whereabouts he drives to Collier County, Florida which is populated by disgruntled rednecks who lost all their money betting on Finkle.
77* ''Film/AlienAbduction2014'' takes place in the deep woods of North Carolina. Sean and his unseen brother Scott are both cabin-dwelling hunters and survivalists, and Sean freely uses terms like "slow" and "retarded" to describe the autistic Riley.
78* There are several racist rednecks in ''Film/TheBlindSide''; Lynne Tuohy lampshades this trope by calling one of them "Film/{{Deliverance}}" [[ShallowParody (even though, whatever their other flaws, the villains in]] ''[[ShallowParody Deliverance]]'' [[ShallowParody were not explicitly racist)]]. On the other hand, the Tuohys are representative of SweetHomeAlabama.
79* ''Film/{{Borat}}'' has a number of scenes set in various "red states," including those specifically in the deep south, attempting to exploit stereotypical conservative attitudes. Borat dines with a family in the South and displays a wide range of boorish behavior, but they courteously endure him until be brings in a prostitute, at which point they kick him out. A cut scene has him try to adopt a dog from a kennel with the stated intention of defending himself from Jews, but the owner of the kennel chewed him out for such beliefs, which didn't fit the narrative.
80** ''Film/BoratSubsequentMoviefilm'' also has a few, such as a scene with a debutante ball in Georgia, to showcase a new rise in conservatism.
81* The screenwriter of the ''Film/CapeFear'' remake directed by Martin Scorsese admits as a "New York Jew", he wrote Max Cady to be a "Monster of the South" speaking in tongues like something out of a tent show revival.
82* The movie ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'' infamously portrays a group of city slickers rafting through the Deep South and running afoul of creepy locals who abuse them.
83* ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate:'' The real Gainesville, Florida is a modern college town with several hundred thousand permanent residents and whose courthouses are all modern multi-level buildings made of concrete and steel located in a busy downtown. What do we see in the film? A Civil War-era whitewashed courthouse on an isolated dirt road, more fitting of Black-Belt Mississippi or Alabama (even there it's unlikely unless the county seat moved) than anywhere in Florida.
84* ''Film/DownByLaw'' takes place in Louisiana and features a lot of SceneryPorn of the swamps and a little of UsefulNotes/NewOrleans.
85* ''Film/FletchLives''. The protagonist inherits a BigFancyHouse in Louisiana and dreams (literally) of living the idle life of a SouthernGentleman. Turns out the house is derelict and he's pestered by {{Dirty Cop}}s, horse-molesting criminals and Klansmen (though the latter is suffering somewhat from BadassDecay). However it turns out that these things have been arranged to scare him off so he won't interfere in the scheme of the BigBad.
86* ''Film/ForrestGump'' - which, of course, takes place from the 1950s to the 1980s, so it covers an entire generation's worth of social change in the South and elsewhere.
87* The Mexican-German film ''Film/GutenTagRamon'' shows the Mexican version of this trope: Ramón, the titular protagonist, is a Mexican Northerner hillbilly from the Northern state of Durango, who is forced to migrate to Germany having no other choices on hand. Part of the charm of the film is the CultureClash between the backwards mentality of the main character with the European mindset of the Germans.
88* Harold and Kumar visit the Deep South in ''Film/HaroldAndKumarEscapeFromGuantanamoBay'', and encounter, among other things, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a Ku Klux Klan rally, an inbred mutant child, and Neil Patrick Harris]].
89* ''[[Series/HannahMontana Hannah Montana: The Movie]]'' takes place in the fake Tennessee town of Crawley Corners.
90* Rob Zombie's ''Film/HouseOf1000Corpses'' and ''Film/TheDevilsRejects''.
91* ''Film/InTheHeatOfTheNight''. Virgil Tibbs is arrested because he's black. Back home in Philadelphia, he's a homicide detective.
92* The stereotyped cruelty of the Deep South is used as both plot device and major driving force in the award-winning film ''Film/LawnDogs''. Many people in the gated community there are cruel, quick to judge, and look down upon hard-working lower-classman Trent. [[spoiler:He is even beaten, twice, for things he didn't do.]] What's more, the screenwriter, who created the story, is [[OffendingTheCreatorsOwn from the Deep South herself]].
93* ''Film/MississippiBurning'' is set in the deep south and tackle racism and {{Small Town Tyrant}}s.
94* ''Film/MyCousinVinny'' mines a lot of comedy from a FishOutOfWater story of two Italian-Americans from New York City going to a small, deep south town and getting into various clashes of culture. Unlike most representations, the city slickers more than hold their own with their street smarts and toughness. That said, Vinny only succeeds by becoming familiar with the ins and outs of the local culture. And for their part, the local southern authorities are shown to be entirely modern and professional.
95* ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou?'' takes place in 1930's Mississippi.
96* ''Film/PoorPrettyEddie'' is an exploitation film set in an isolated lodge and the nearby small town somewhere in the South.
97* ''Film/RequiemForADream'': The boys end up in a Southern prison, which doesn't take kindly to drug-addicted New Yorkers.
98* Much of ''Film/ShyPeople'' takes place in a remote part of the Louisiana bayous, where Ruth and her clan live in virtual isolation from the outside world.
99* The documentary ''small town gay bar'' centers around...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gay bars in small town]]. Homophobia and persecution is prevalent, and the patrons use the local gay bar as a sanctuary. Basically, WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame + The Deep South.
100* ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'' is based heavily on Southern culture of the era, particularly trucker and CB culture.
101* ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'' takes place in a [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory sanitized version of Reconstruction]]. The movie contains [[MagicalNegro Uncle Remus]] stories about Br'er Rabbit [[BriarPatching ("Please don't throw me in the briar patch!")]] and gave us "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah".
102* ''Film/SouthernComfort'' pits a bunch of Nation Guardsmen against a gang of local RaginCajun s who don't take too kindly to outsiders invading their territory and stealing their boats.
103* ''Film/StrawDogs2011'' moves the setting from England to Mississippi, and the antagonists are a group of pickup truck-driving redneck rapists.
104* The whole premise behind the ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' and ''[[Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977 The Hills Have Eyes]]'' film series is rooted in this trope.
105* In ''Film/TimberFalls'', everyone dwelling the West Virginia backwoods is either a [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] religious maniac or a HillbillyMoonshiner.
106* ''Film/{{X|2022}}'' and ''Film/{{Pearl|2022}}'' are primarily set in a small Texas farm owned by a particularly murderous couple.
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110* Creator/MarkTwain may have created the most ancient of all the tropes associated with the Deep South, especially in ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer'' and ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn''.
111* Music/NickCave's novel ''Literature/AndTheAssSawTheAngel'' is set in one of the most vile hicktowns ever: Ukulore, founded by [[CorruptChurch a psychotic heretical backwoods prophet]], where almost everyone is either blasted out of their mind on moonshine, or a hypocritically pious sadist. Inbreeding is everywhere, too.
112%%* Played cheerfully and for humor in Joan Hess's ''Literature/ArlyHanks'' mysteries.
113* Mostly averted in Sharyn [=McCrumb=]'s ''Ballad'' series, set in the area where Kentucky, Tennesee and North Carolina all meet. Subverted however in "The Devil Amongst The Lawyers'' where northern journalists, visiting for a murder trial in the 30s deliberately project the stereotypical image because they know that it's what their readers want to see.
114* Literature/BrownsPineRidgeStories: This anthology of stories (all set in rural southern Georgia) runs on this trope. An example that somewhat lampshades this: "Once a year we came under attack from the North! No, not Yankees, I'm talking about the Goat Man."
115* ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'' by James Dickey. Southerners will complain at length about the movie and the novel and the horrible stereotypes it represents. It's worth noting Dickey was born and raised in Atlanta, living and working in the Southeast for most of his life.
116* In Creator/KimNewman's ''[[Literature/DarkFuture Demon Download]]'' series, the main Op Agency in the the Southern States is called 'The Good Ole Boys,' and the most prevalent gangcults are the Klu Klux Klan and The Knights of The White Magnolia. The G.O.B are portrayed as being pretty much an entire organization of [[Film/LiveAndLetDie J.W Peppers]] and [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard Boss Hoggs]], chewing tobacco, lording it over "the coloured folks" and generally being a bunch of bigoted rednecks. With guns. And the legal power to arrest you and sell you into slavery.
117* Judd "Scanner" Sandage, one of the principal side characters in the ''Literature/FortunesOfWar'' books, is basically a hillbilly in a Starfleet uniform, complete with thick accent, garrulous mannerisms, and a bit of a lack of boundaries, but [[SubvertedTrope he knows his stuff when it comes to sensors and is a competent officer overall]].
118* Creator/DerekRobinson took time out from his usual 20th century war fiction to write ''Literature/KentuckyBlues'', which sought to subvert [[Literature/GoneWithTheWind notions of the Deep South]] as effectively as his UsefulNotes/WW1 air-war trilogy subverted the ''Literature/{{Biggles}}'' genre. Seen through the eyes of several feuding white families, and through the eyes of the slaves who are later freed, the novel is satirical BlackComedy.
119* William Bradford Huie's novel ''Literature/TheKlansman'' is set in the Deep South, in a politically corrupt county in the years immediately preceding the Civil Rights movement. bBlacks are vilified and lynched - a central plot point is the alleged rape of a white woman by a black man. This is set against the deliberate false imprisonment and rape in prison of a visiting black woman from the North, who is viewed as "uppity" by local whites who determine she needs to be taught a lesson.
120* ''Literature/TheLittleFriend'' by Creator/DonnaTartt takes place in rural Mississippi and tackles race relations, plantation fiction, snake-handlin' churches, meth use and manufacturing, and plenty of poverty.
121* Creator/WilliamFaulkner's short story ''Literature/ARoseForEmily'' is set in this fair land, and at first it seems quite idealized, with social classes firmly in place, black servants that keep their masters' secrets, and gorgeous, stately mansions... that are riddled with decay, and years past the times.
122%%* ''Literature/{{Run}}'' is set in the small town of Mursey, Kentucky.
123* The much-beloved ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' by Harper Lee focuses partially on racism revolving around a falsely-accused black man.
124* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' sees the [[FallenStatesOfAmerica downfall]] of the decayed future United States, and one of the successor states is a reformed New Confederacy which invokes every stereotype relating to this trope, from the SouthernGentleman to TheKlan. The protagonist is a Yankee, but visits the South and aids them in their battles against their home-grown DirtyCommunists.
125* ''Literature/TheWitchOfKnightcharm'': One of the members of Lily's clique of evil witches is Lucille Ballard, an imperious girl from Mississippi with a thick accent who occasionally drops southernisms (like saying 'bless your heart' to a rival classmate that she's in the process of killing via magic).
126* Subverted in ''Literature/ZombiesOfTheGenePool'', which is set in Tennessee. Jay Omega worries that he and his fellow professor-slash-girlfriend Marion have stumbled upon a diner like this. Then a big bearded man comes up to the table and starts intimidating Jay...until Marion tells him to knock it off. It turns out, the "redneck" is a Joyce scholar professor and a friend of Marion's who wanted to have a little fun at the expense of yet another "''Film/{{Deliverance}}'' sucker" as he puts it.
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130* The ''Series/ThirtyRock'' episode "Stone Mountain" features Liz and Jack visiting Kenneth's hometown of Stone Mountain, Georgia, which is portrayed as being a small town full of white rednecks. This actually ends up being an example of TelevisionGeography, as in real life Stone Mountain is a suburb of UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} and is over 50% Black.
131* The ''Series/AmazingStories'' episode "Mummy Daddy" is set here, with a movie-actor stuck in his mummy costume attempting to escape from a bloodthirsty band of local hicks and reach the local hospital where his wife is giving birth.
132* ''Series/AmericanGothic1995'' takes [[DownOnTheFarm rural]] [[FlyoverCountry Iowa]] as its inspiration.
133* ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'': The early seasons featured Mr. Drysdale and Miss Hathaway as the straight men, looking on at those wacky hillbillies and how unfamiliar they were with the big city. They eventually shifted to Jed being the straight man, solving problems because his homespun wisdom made him smarter than city folk, with Mr. Drysdale being a comic character. Later on, much of the humor of the Clampetts' unfamiliarity with the modern world came from making fun of the stranger aspects of the modern world, like when the Clampetts meet a bunch of hippies.\
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135Of course, as the title of the series states, the Clampetts are, specifically, "Hillbillies". That is, rural Appalachian hillfolk rather than just generic Southerners. The Clampetts were from Tennessee (TheMovie incorrectly says Arkansas - whose hillfolk instead come from the Ozarks, which also stretch into Missouri), but Appalachian culture goes as far north as Ohio and Pennsylvania, so it's not even an exclusively "Southern" stereotype.
136** In the vein: while many people not from the South are familiar with (and make fun of) the Southern use of the plural second-person pronoun "y'all" (a contraction of 'you all'), far fewer know of the much less common "you'uns (a contraction of 'you ones'). The second is used by people from Knoxville, Tennessee in the Cumberland and Great Smoky Mountains to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (where it's famously contracted even further to "yinz") in the Allegheny Mountains, all part of the Appalachian Range.
137* On of the {{Noodle Incident}}s in ''Series/{{Community}}'''s fake-ClipShow involves the gang visiting a GhostTown in the Deep South. It involved Troy and Abed (black and Palestinian Arab respectively) getting shot at by a guy in red long underwear.
138-->'''Troy:''' By the way, that dude was hardcore racist. Like 18 hundred's Disney-style. We learned new ways to hate ourselves.
139* An episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' ZigZagged this. The episode centered on a feud between two stereotypical West Virginia hillbilly clans, who shot at federal agents and insisted on referring to JJ as "Mrs" rather than "Agent Jureau". The BAU come to the conclusion that the two are cooking crystal meth and the rivalry has spiraled into a drug war. Subverted when it turned out they were both making clean, efficient, bio-fuels. Then it went right back to playing it straight when [[spoiler:the matriarch of one clan and the patriarch of the other are revealed to be brother and sister, and the VillainOfTheWeek is their inbred son who was raised in the backwoods by a CrazySurvivalist]].
140* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' features an exaggerated depiction of the Deep South, filled to the brim with Civil War-obsessed moonshiners, yokels and corrupt officials. It also popularised the modern Southern girl fashion sense of [[IconicOutfit crop tops and short shorts]].
141* ''Series/{{ER}}'' brought Dr. Benton to the backwater town of Pascagoula, Mississippi, where minorities were looked upon with suspicion and residents were wary of treatment from him. When this episode aired, it caused residents of the real Pascagoula (a medium-sized city) to protest its portrayal.
142* The Creator/{{ABC}} show ''Series/{{GCB}}'' is about a single mother and widow who moves from Santa Barbara, California to her hometown of Dallas, Texas. The show pretty much plays up all of the stereotypes of the South and Texas.
143* Referenced more than a few times on ''Series/GoodEats''. The "polenta/grits" episode begins with Alton being invited in by a family ("Southern Hospitality") for breakfast, and pissing them off by saying that grits and polenta are the exact same thing. In two episodes, he contrasts regional differences between the North and South with banana pudding [[note]] Up north, they like it refrigerated, with whipped cream. Down south, the dish is ''baked'', and the whipped cream is replaced with meringue. [[/note]] and chicken-and-dumplings. [[note]] Up north, the dumplings take inspiration from choux pastry; they're thick and fluffy. Down south, the dumplings are more noodle-like. [[/note]] In the (after-) ThanksgivingEpisode, Alton, his "relatives," and his TV crew are SnowedIn...by which we mean there was ''an inch of snow on the ground'', because this is [[SelfDeprecation Georgia]]. He also did an episode dedicated to gumbo, and an episode dedicated to rice and beans, two dishes heavily influenced by the Cajun and Creole cultures found in the region. And when the recipe is distinctly Southern, such as fried catfish, mint juleps, or ambrosia, expect Alton's "uncle" Col. Bob Boatright (a parody of KFC's Col. Sanders) to appear.
144%%* ''Series/GreenAcres''.
145* ''Series/HannahMontana'' never lets you forget the main character's Southern roots (specifically, Tennessee). Taken to extremes when a snooty set of parents spent the entire episode mocking The Deep South.
146** Interestingly enough, Disney apparently originally tried to make Miley Cyrus speak in that standard bland [=SoCal=] dialect that all their other personalities use, but even the most rigorous dialog coaching failed to erase her accent, so they just gave up.
147** Miley herself in interviews and in RealLife will [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecatedly]] refer to her accent or Southern culture as "hillbilly" (though she certainly is proud of her roots). Accounts on her Website/{{Twitter}} feed that she follows and Website/YouTube videos she favorites show a fascination with the South (serious or tongue-in-cheek).
148* ''Series/TheHeartSheHoller'' portrays the South so negatively that it makes ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'' look like a tourist ad.
149%%* ''Series/{{HeeHaw}}''.
150* At least one episode of ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'' had Banner running afoul of a [[SmallTownTyrant corrupt sheriff]] in a little Southern town.
151* ''Series/InTheHeatOfTheNight'' deals with this even more than the original book and movie did, with racism and other traditions, good or ill, of the Deep South being a frequent theme and contrasted with the newer attitudes of the late eighties/early nineties.
152* ''Series/{{Justified}}'' tries to provide a more nuanced portrayal, with the corruption, backwardness, and economic despair of Harlan County, Kentucky (actually in the very heart of Appalachia) having more to do with the place being a veritable WretchedHive, than all Southerners being innately bigoted or criminal. The fact that [[CowboyCop Raylan]] and his fellow {{US Marshal}}s are from the south helps to balance things out, as well.
153* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'''s "The Bank Shot Job" is set in a backwater town here, and features the team trying to bring down the SmallTownTyrant judge.
154* ''Series/TheMagician'': In "Lightning on a Dry Day", a hospital patient is spooked senseless by the fire in one of Tony's charity magic acts. His investigation into the young man's past leads him to a small TownWithADarkSecret somewhere in Appalachia that is riddled with suspicious residents, including a [[DirtyCop corrupt sheriff]] and an EvilMatriarch, and the nystery centres around [[HillbillyMoonshiner illegal moonshine production]].
155* ''Series/{{Matlock}}'' is set in a version of Atlanta which apparently neglects to include the sports teams, the multiple Fortune 500 companies, the obscene traffic and overflowing interstate system, and focuses primarily on plantation style houses, small town streetscapes, and a sense of general suburbia (which, to be fair, Atlanta has a lot of, especially to its north).
156* A few ''Series/MiamiVice'' episodes whose plots require the protagonists to travel outside Miami involve them dealing with such crises as a turf war between redneck families in the Everglades. Crockett himself is a very stereotypical southerner at times.
157* Seen in several ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episodes, except that garrulous New Englanders who interfere in everyone's business ''don't'' come to horrible ends.
158* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' appears to be located in an area like this, though it's [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield unknown precisely]] ''[[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield where]]'' [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Camden is located]].
159* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''--Joel, Mike and the Bots would take jabs at the Deep South anytime a movie featuring the stereotypes was screened. Since absolutely everyone--fat or thin, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, smart or dumb--gets lampooned equally on the show, it's not worth getting worked up about.
160* Pennsatucky from ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'' comes from a community like this.
161%%* ''Series/PetticoatJunction''.
162* Britain's favourite black American, Reginald D. Hunter, was sent back to his homeland by the BBC to present a series making sense of the Deep South states for British viewers. Reginald, from Georgia, accomplished this with style and insight in ''Reginald D. Hunter's Songs of the South''. See him '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kNqwoo407E here]]''' explaining Tennessee to the British.
163* Dr. Leonard [=McCoy=] of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' exemplifies mostly good aspects of Southern stereotypes: humane, passionate, polite, and a great cook, although with a mild streak of racism directed against Vulcans and androids.
164* Many pageants featured on ''Series/ToddlersAndTiaras'' take place in rural Southern towns.
165%%** Its {{spinoff}}, ''Series/HereComesHoneyBooBoo'', exaggerates it.
166* Although the trope is based on an exaggerated stereotype, the ''Series/TopGear'' team proved that it's still not a good idea to drive around in Alabama with cars sporting such slogans as "NASCAR sucks" and "Manlove rules OK", to say nothing of "Hillary 4 President". They pulled in for gasoline and eventually had to flee while rocks were chucked at them. The jury's out on whether the locals kicked off as a result of being offended by what was written, or at being trolled with the stereotype...
167** Strangely, the [[SeriousBusiness locals reacted most strongly to NASCAR being dissed]], so maybe the stereotype of the Deep South has some TruthInTelevision to it.
168* Somebody in the crew making ''Series/TrueBlood'' must have been reading TV Tropes, because the opening credits show all clichés from the main entry, pretty much in the order they are listed. The ''Sookie Stackhouse'' novels - upon which ''Series/TrueBlood'' is based - explores this trope as well, but with a far more balanced perspective.
169** Though the show itself is more mixed. The small town of Bon Temps is up to date in technology and current events, the sheriff and the assistant sheriff are basically decent people, and you can count the number of episodes where people have a problem with the CampGay black guy in the kitchen on one hand. It's just that whole vampire thing that brings out the populous' more bigoted side.
170* ''Series/TrueLife'' had an episode called "The Theriot Family: [[PunBasedTitle The Riot]] in the Bayou" about a large Louisiana family that likes to have fun. They fall into most of the stereotypes of the South as well as some UsefulNotes/NewOrleans stereotypes.
171* ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' has had more than a few hillbilly jokes thrown up, but [[NWordPrivileges Wayne Brady]] can always be counted on to provide his own unique spin on the trope:
172-->''["Scenes from a Hat" suggestion: "Visions of Hell other than fire and brimstone."]''
173-->'''Colin:''' (miming driving) Mississippi... I'm ''still'' in Mississippi...
174-->'''Wayne:''' Mississippi... '''I'm''' still in Mississippi!
175-->''[From a different session: "Unlikely state songs"]''
176-->'''Wayne:''' (singing) Oh, you won't find me in Alabamaaaa...
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180* Anthony and Those Other Guys "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqnWQgU5AOU&feature=plcp&context=C3982292UDOEgsToPDskLtPcZIM_hmZZGJkqDag9Pd Sunburn]]" which is loosely based on a real person.
181* Music/{{Cormorant}} has the song "Blood on the Cornfields", which is about the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner Nat Turner rebellion]].
182* Music/CharlieDaniels' first hit, "Uneasy Rider" has the narrator forced to stop in a small Southern town to get his car repaired. Being a long-haired hippie, he doesn't get a warm welcome from the locals. He has a bad (if hilarious) encounter with "a fat old drunk chick and some guy with green teeth".
183* Occurs in Music/InsaneClownPosse's "Chicken Huntin'", "Your Rebel Flag", and others. Additionally, the former Creator/PsychopathicRecords artist Music/{{Boondox}}, simply is this trope personified.
184* Music/TomLehrer, "[[http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/dixie.htm I Wanna Go Back to Dixie]]", from ''Music/SongsByTomLehrer'', mixes parodies of sentimental songs about the South with satirical commentary on its racist tendencies.
185-->''I wanna go back to Dixie\
186I wanna be a Dixie pixie\
187And eat corn pone till it's comin' outta my ears\
188I wanna talk with Southern gentlemen\
189And put that white sheet on again\
190I ain't seen one good lynchin' in years''
191* Music/LynyrdSkynyrd. Especially "SweetHomeAlabama", {{Trope Namer|s}} for more positive portrayals of the Deep South. As the quintessential Southern Rock band, their entire sound is pretty much synonymous with stereotypical "Southernness" nowadays, though whether you regard this as good or bad is a matter of opinion.
192* "The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia" by written by Bobby Russell and sung in 1972 by his then-wife Vicki Lawrence before being CoveredUp by Music/RebaMcEntire recounts a sad tale of poverty, adultery, murder, and corrupt public officials in the Deep South. (World-famous professional wrestler Wrestling/JohnCena has included the famous four-note piano melody from this song's chorus as a sample - now played on horns - in his entrance theme, "The Time is Now", since 2005.)
193* Tends to be a favorite setting for Music/RandyNewman, especially his controversial hit "Rednecks"[[note]]Ironically for the controversy, the song reserved its sharpest satirical punches for the ''North''.[[/note]] and the more subtle, but just as pointed, "Birmingham".
194* Music/PhilOchs' "Here's to the State of Mississippi".
195* Nina Simone's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Goddam "Mississippi Goddam"]]
196* Music/RayStevens' song "Mississippi Squirrel Revival" invokes this trope.
197* Music/NeilYoung's ProtestSong [[Music/AfterTheGoldrush "Southern Man"]], against which "Sweet Home Alabama" is partly a TakeThat, is an opposing example, graphically portraying and condemning the abuses of slavery and racism.
198* For a TakeThat at "Sweet Home Alabama" itself, see Music/WarrenZevon's "Play it All Night Long." The first line is "Grandpa pissed his pants again" and that sort of sets the tone.
199** "Sweet home Alabama / Play that dead band's song..." Ironically, Music/LynyrdSkynyrd is still touring, while Music/WarrenZevon has been dead for years--though that depends on whether you consider the current Lynyrd Skynyrd to be the same band as the one that wrote "Sweet Home Alabama".[[note]]The original lineup broke up after a tragic plane crash that killed three members including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant. Of the current band touring as Lynyrd Skynyrd, only guitarist Gary Rossington is an original member.[[/note]]
200* Most CountryMusic leans into DeepSouth iconography, as it presumes that's who their audience is. Even artists that aren't from there have songs about living in DeepSouth, such as Music/KeithUrban's baffling ode to a Southern youth "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16," despite being ''Australian.'' With a very thick accent when not singing. What side of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism scale songs fall on regarding DeepSouth stereotypes depends largely on the artist, but also the time period. 90s country music was into poking fun at the stereotypes, while post-9/11 country music played them straight as an arrow. The "bro-country" movement of the 2010s exalted the stereotypes as something to emulate.
201** Averted with Canadian CountryMusic artists, whose cultural stereotypes for the genre skew more "western plains/Rockie Mountains." Paul Brandt's "Alberta Bound" and Dean Brody's "Mountain Man," for instance, are both about the down-home culture of western Canada, sung about similarly to how American artists sing about say, West Virginia. Terri Clark's "Northern Girl" is an ode to a youth spent driving on the ice and playing the snow.
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205* ''[[Pinball/LexyLightspeed Lexy Lightspeed - Escape from Earth]]'': Lexy and Lookie are aided in their escape from [[Area51 Area 53.1]] by Little Larry and Ronnie Earl, two redneck brothers living in the nearby Floridian swamp.
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209* Todd Barry has a routine in which someone asks him "Oh God, what was ''that'' like?" after he brings up a gig he did in Alabama. He answers, "Oh, you know... chairs, microphone..." He then realizes what the person really wants to hear and goes on a condescending tangent of Deep South stereotypes before cursing at the person's narrow-mindedness:
210-->"Well, I flew into Birmingham... The Imperial Wizard from the Klan picked me up at the airport. Rode to the club on the back of an old mule, tried to get a joke out over the shouts of 'Jew boy, go home!' At the end of it I said 'Where's my check?' They go 'Yer not gettin' a check, yer gettin' this bag o' pork rinds!' ...Is that the answer you were looking for, you narrow-minded, fake-liberal '''fuck'''?"
211* Creator/JeffFoxworthy is all about poking fun at stereotypes associated with the South. As he himself is from Georgia, much of his humor is autobiographical.
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215* In ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', the [[DividedStatesOfAmerica Confederated American States]] (or CAS) are this. The ''Data Trails'' sourcebook details that their national matrix grid (designated "[=CASnet=]") is based on the pre-war South, ca. 1850. However, the designers of said grid had just enough tact to ''not'' depict any slaves.
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219* The musical ''Theatre/FiniansRainbow'' is set in the fictitious state of Missitucky. What undoubtedly will help carry this Southern state "forward to yesterday" (to quote the stirring words of Senator Billboard Rawkins) are its poll tax, restrictive covenants and black servants carrying mint juleps (the traditional minstrel shuffling and "yawk, yawk" accents, however, are evidently not taught at Tuskegee).
220* Larry Shue's ''Theatre/TheForeigner'' takes place in rural Georgia, featuring KKK members as the villains.
221* ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''[[note]]Its twangy dialect aside, the "Southern-ness" of the actual state is debatable, due to it being settled largely from non-southern Kansas.[[/note]]
222* ''Theatre/LilAbner''
223* ''Theatre/{{Parade|1998}}'', set in Atlanta.
224* Creator/TennesseeWilliams was from Mississippi, and all of his plays are set in the Deep South.
225** ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''
226** ''Theatre/TheGlassMenagerie''
227** ''Theatre/CatOnAHotTinRoof''
228* In the musical ''Theatre/{{Violet}}'', the title character travels by bus from [[UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}} North Carolina]], through Tennessee and Arkansas, to Oklahoma.
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232* This is actually [[ZigZaggedTrope zig-zagged]] in ''VideoGame/BigMuthaTruckers''. The game takes place in Hick County, an area that you would think would consist of nothing but a city of hillbillies. And indeed, it has Ma's House, which while a big house, has the look of the backwoods redneck area. And there's Skeeter's Creek has the rundown and broken-down areas that you would associate with the stereotypical Deep South. On the flip side, Hick County has quite a few cities that are more higher-brow than you would think an area of its name has. Such as Capital City, with the store there being an art museum ran by a Frenchman. And there's also the [[VivaLasVegas Las Vegas-like city, Greenback.]]
233* Planned, but ultimately averted in ''VideoGame/BioShock''. Atlas, your MissionControl, was initially given a deep south voice actor rather than his Irish one, but players immediately distrusted him and they had to change to a more trustworthy one. [[spoiler:Given that [[MissionControlIsOffItsMeds Atlas reveals himself as the villain]] halfway into the game, having the player trust him was a significant part of the narrative.]]
234* ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition2'' takes place in Louisana, and all the stereotypes associated with the region, both positive and negative, are shown or subverted.
235** This example is interesting because SWERY, the developer, actually physically visited the Deep South with his team to do research prior to finishing the game. According to his stream, he chose the area because he wanted a niche region of the US that even some Americans would consider somewhat exotic.
236* ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans''--Although most if not all the humans your alien protagonist vaporizes are appropriately stupid, with most of them carrying around pretty vapid thoughts ("I Like Ike!") in their heads, your first mission takes place in an area called Turnipseed Farm, where you encounter incompetent mayors, violent farmers, ignorant housewives, ditzy teens, corrupt cops, and easy to fool cowboys. Slightly inverted because the area is located in the midwest instead of the Deep South.
237** And, in light of the "I Like Ike!" snippet described above, it's worth pointing out that the South was one of the few places where Dwight Eisenhower was ''not'' popular during the 1950s.
238* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'''s Colonel Augustus Autumn has a reasonable, and at times quite good, Virginia plantation accent. Somewhat strangely for a game set partly in the ruins of northern Virginia, no other character has an accent remotely like his.
239** Something of a TruthInTelevision, as DC and the associated metro areas in Maryland and northern Virginia ([=NoVa=], as the locals call it) consists almost entirely of standard urbanized populations drawn from throughout the country to take jobs in the Federal government. Once you leave the DC metro area and head further south, there's a marked change in culture. In a map showing election results by county in Virginia, you'll see four blue sections in a sea of red: the suburbs of DC, the southeast (home to Richmond, Norfolk, their respective suburbs, and a few majority-black rural counties south of Richmond), and [[WackyCollege the college towns of Charlottesville and Blacksburg]].
240** The Point Lookout DLC is a straighter example, with its moonshining and mutated, subhuman "swampfolk" who tote double-barreled shotguns. However, it's based on a real-life location (Point Lookout State Park, MD) that remained Union territory during the Civil War, and arguably, like most subcultures in the ''Fallout'' universe, it has more to do with 200 years of isolation.
241* ''Franchise/FarCry'':
242** Hurk Drubman Jr., first introduced in ''VideoGame/FarCry3'', is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} BloodKnight with a Southern accent who teams up with Jason Brody to battle [[AmoralAfrikaner Hoyt Volker's]] privateers in hopes of getting Rakyat tattoos and the chance of having sex with [[JunglePrincess Citra]]. He's quite a friendly individual, if disturbingly obsessed with [[WeaponizedAnimal using monkeys as bombers]]. He pops up again in future games as the one character establishing continuity between the different settings and plots of the series. Hilariously, ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'' reveals that his ancestor Urki had the same accent, despite Urki being from ''prehistoric Central Europe''. And then ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' reveals that Hurk and his family are from '''Montana'''. To add to the MindScrew, his voice actor is [[FakeAmerican Canadian]].
243** Funnily enough, another character from ''Far Cry 5'' also qualifies as this: [[SinisterMinister Father Joseph Seed]], who is from Georgia, and it shows in the game's ending [[spoiler:and when all three of his siblings have been killed]], when his true accent starts slipping out. Ironically, Joseph's voice actor is also Canadian.
244* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoVI'': This isn't [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity the first game in the series]] to be set in the Southern United States, but while previous depictions of Vice City, the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' universe's version of [[OnlyInMiami Miami]], were restricted to just the city alone, this game includes the surrounding countryside on top of it. Vice City may be a world unto itself, but the trailer demonstrates that the rest of the [[FictionalProvince state of Leonida]] is still a Southern state, with muscle cars speeding through dusty rural towns, crazed rednecks driving lifted trucks, airboats running through the swamp, and a party held in a mud pit.
245* ''Death on the Mississippi'' and ''Till Death Do Us Part'' missions in ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney''. Notably, ''Till Death'' takes place at a very redneck wedding, and is the only time in the game 47 can openly carry (even fire in some areas) long guns without alarming civilians.
246* The villains in ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'' are Anti Mutant Rednecks.
247* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' chronicles the journey of four survivors of a ZombieApocalypse making their way from Savannah, Georgia to New Orleans. Two of the characters are Southerners: Ellis, an overly energetic mechanic who loves guns, rambles at length about "[[TheMunchausen mah buddy Keith]]", and is generally too good-natured to be a GoodOlBoy, and Coach, an African-American high school football coach who loves food and plays the role of TeamDad. They are joined by two Northerners, Rochelle, a reporter from Cleveland, Ohio who takes on the dual roles of the TeamMom, and Nick, a Vegas con-artist and borderline Guido DeadpanSnarker. Much of the humor in the game is based on Rochelle and Nick's observations of the Deep South views vs. Ellis and Coach's SweetHomeAlabama views. The latter two share a somewhat stereotypical love for NASCAR and southern music, Ellis going so far as to wish he were a woman so he could have his favorite racer's children. Nick makes fun of a more repulsive southern stereotype in the "tunnel of love" section of the Dark Carnival campaign by saying that the tunnel was created for hillbillies and noting that it used to give discounts for cousins. In the second level of the game, one possible dialog has Ellis say he knows of a gun store where they can get better equipped. Nick snarks "Looks like living in this place is finally paying off", taking a stab at the stereotypical Southerner's gun obsession, and Coach doesn't like it, though he's civil about it. The places they pass through, however, are less Deep South than they are SouthernGothic.
248* ''VideoGame/{{Maneater}}'' is set in Louisiana, specifically a version of such lifted from "rednecksploitation" RealityTV shows like ''Series/SwampPeople'' and ''Series/DuckDynasty''. The BigBad, "Scaly Pete" [=LeBlanc=], is a RaginCajun GoodOlBoy shark hunter who serves as the star of one such show. What we see of the landscape is a parody of the Gulf Coast at its worst: rednecks in the bayou, a WretchedHive of a city, wealthy retirees living in [[GaiasLament ecosystem-destroying]] country clubs and coastal developments with [[UrbanSegregation high walls to keep out "the locals"]], a Ride/SeaWorld-esque marine park that abuses animals, industrial pollution courtesy of politicians who only care about economic growth, you name it.
249* ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}: Stranger's Wrath'' is set in an alien version of this, populated by hillbilly chicken people and toadlike outlaws.
250* ''VideoGame/RedneckRampage'', of course, ''rolls'' in this trope.
251* Chapter 3 and 4 of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' storyline is primarily set in these parts, in particular the State of Lemoyne which heavily inspired by Louisiana and other Southern states. It even has an expy of New Orleans, the city of Saint Denis. There's also Scarlett Meadows, a mixed land of hills and bayou swamp where two inbred clans hate each others' guts, and traces of the Civil War and slavery can still be found.
252* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' is set in a huge, derelict plantation like something out of ''Series/TrueDetective'' - only with [[HillbillyHorrors superhuman cannibal hillbillies.]]
253* ''Franchise/StarCraft'':
254** The Terrans are the Deep South JustForFun/RecycledInSpace. Nearly all the Terrans are apparently from the Deep South; many of the heroic ''and'' the villainous Terrans use syntax and expressions stereotypically attributed to Deep Southerners. In the expansion pack, the non-Terran humans are European, specifically Russian and German--and are almost universally evil. The United Earth Directorate is, more or less, a [[CommieNazis mishmash]] of CommieLand and [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazi Germany]]. Not ''every'' Terran has a Southern accent though: Sarah Kerrigan does not, and Jim Raynor's is debatable, as his accent is a sort of "Generic Rural" that can sound vaguely Southern at times (listen to him say "right on"). Tell you what, it's an Indiana accent. Southern Indiana. Basically Midwestern, but with a few traces of Southern from the dialect of Indiana's original Virginian settlers. If the Battlecruiser voices are any indication, there are also some Russians lumped in with them as well. The wiki even mentions traces of Japanese culture. Still, it seems that much of Terran civilization is dominated by heavy American (i.e., Southern) influences.
255** ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'''s SCV amplifies the redneck stereotypes, including telling you "[[Film/{{Deliverance}} You got a purdy mouth]]" [[StopPokingMe if you annoy him]].
256** The Terran Confederacy were originally comprised of prisoners who crash landed in the Korprulu Sector. It is pointed out that the Terran Confederacy (using a modified Confederate States Army naval Jack as their flag) is considered corrupt, is plagued by several rebel groups, has nuked a rebelling planet (Korhal) and is eventually [[FromBadToWorse overthrown by the even worse]] [[TheEmpire Terran Dominion]]. Actually, most of the human factions [[HumansAreBastards are shown as more or less evil]], except [[LaResistance Raynor's Raiders]].
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260* In ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'', Whiskeyville seems to be here. It’s a sleepy little town with a diner and not much else, and Olivia, who fixes their jukebox, speaks with a drawl and wears sexy cowgirl clothes.
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264* Subverted in ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck''. The titular redneck foxes are erudite, intelligent, and informed, the local political zealot is a Democrat, no one much seems to mind people from different walks of life, and visitors get Southern Hospitality in spades. In other words, it's probably a better reflection of the South than you'll get anyplace else (except, you know...the actual South). On the other end of the spectrum, look no further than Gus Guthrie. As you might expect, the brothers' disdain for him stems as much from the fact that he's exactly what comes to mind when someone says "Deep South," as from the fact that this makes him a pain in the ass to rival casaba-sized hemorrhoids.
265* Early in ''WebComic/QuestionableContent'' an interesting aversion is set up; Faye's sister is a lesbian who continues to live in her native Georgia rather than move to Massachusetts where Faye now lives. Nothing much is ever made of this. All the more notable considering that ''QC'' is set in Northampton, which is one of the most famously lesbian-friendly towns in the US (think of a gender-bent San Francisco). Fans of the strip will notice that the local "Smiff College" [[SarcasmMode appears to have one or two gay women in the student body]].
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269* ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'': After spending most of the episode pretending to be a Kentuckian that was accidentally sent to Camp Campbell for a foreign exchange program, Brian reveals himself to be a Kentucky secessionist hoping to steal Cameron Campbell's fortune in order to fund his state leaving the union. He gains a much thicker accent and begins to embody all the stereotypes of the Deep South (except the racist parts).
270* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' co-host Boomstick harbors a few of these traits, his accent and love of guns being the most noticeable.
271* In ''WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv'' [[spoiler:Matt]] speaks with a rednecky accent.
272* Donald in [[https://www.deviantart.com/darkkomet/art/The-Lightningbolts-Light-of-The-Sun-778805875 The Lightningbolts: Light of The Sun]] talks in a deep southern accent on the voiced video segments like this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otIKyqCswxY&t=0s&list=PLGxN1Ep1PhQhmNZBwVD9X1WijETuZ2Pz2&index=13 example]], there is also his negative religious views being mention on his [[https://www.deviantart.com/darkkomet/art/Donald-Drump-689827613 bio]] and being outright said in episode 13 [[spoiler: where he revealed himself as General Nazi]].
273* ''Literature/DecadesOfDarkness'' is an AlternateHistory story in which, during the UsefulNotes/WarOf1812, all of the states northeast of Pennsylvania [[DividedStatesOfAmerica seceded]] and formed a [[HollywoodNewEngland Republic of New England]] while the British seized a large swath of the Midwest (including UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} and [[UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} Fort Dearborn]]) to later become part of Canada. The rump United States left behind, dominated by the planter aristocrats of Dixie, turns into [[TheEmpire an expansionist empire]] based in white supremacy in which slavery is still legal and celebrated well into the 20th century, by which point it has evolved into a racial caste system not unlike Latin America's thanks to its many conquests in that part of the world over the years. The culture of the ruling class is described as a mix of Southern gentry and the Hispanic ''criollos'' who [[LesCollaborateurs collaborated]] with them.
274* Diabetus of LetsPlay and Retsupurae fame is from Alabama, and will occasionally exaggerate his accent for the sake of a joke.
275* Subverted in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' with Margaret Tweedy, who was a favorite target of bullies at school largely because of her Southern roots, despite being neither stupid nor behind the times. Said bullying did, however, make her bitter and perpetually angry.
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279* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' believe it or not, featured the Foggy Swamp Tribe, a distant cousin of the Water Tribes. But when one of them reveals this fact, the Water Tribe siblings (mostly Katara) look a bit disturbed. Because of the show's fantasy setting the Foggy Swamp dwellers aren't necessarily backwards in technology or stupid, only dirty and rustic. Their elder does dispense some very meaningful spiritual advise to Aang that he takes to heart, a personal philosophy derived from living in the swamp. That said, they don't seem to like wearing pants.
280-->'''Elder:''' Pants are an illusion, and so is death.
281* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' was set in the small town of Highland, Texas, and Creator/MikeJudge was not flattering in how he portrayed it. Highland was a crude, ignorant, white-trash bunghole where the titular protagonists waste their days watching Creator/{{MTV}} and engaging in various loutish shenanigans, most businesses are either corporate chains or cater to [[LowerClassLout lowlifes]], and the few people with any ambitions in life are absolutely miserable. ([[SpiritualAntithesis Compare it]] to the more positive depiction of small-town Texas that Judge featured on ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''.) One of those ambitious people, Daria Morgendorffer, later moved a new town when she got [[WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} her own spinoff]], and while her new StepfordSuburbia home of Lawndale (stated by WordOfGod to be located [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield somewhere in the Mid-Atlantic region]]) was still a CrapsackWorld, she ''still'' preferred it to Highland, because at least there wasn't uranium in the drinking water making everyone crazy.
282* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' has the Kanker Sisters. The three live in a trailer park called Park N' Flush, May and Lee have Southern accents. May fits the image of a hillbilly best as she has 2 buck teeth and is very stupid. The cartoon's [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow movie]] even reveals Lee has 3 eyes, implying that the Kanker Sisters were inbred.
283* In the episode "Inherit the Judgement-The Dope's Trial," ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' heads to the Deep South where he is put on trial for being an "eggolutionist."
284* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', set in Rhode Island but written by a bunch of Southern Californians. God, where to even ''start'' with this one:
285** The show visits one of these locales in an episode entitled "To Live and Die in Dixie". The South is one of the series' favorite punching bags, and it receives a ''lot'' of low blows from the show. According to the show, the people in the South are still bitter about losing the UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, and are behind about a hundred years in terms of culture and technology. The neighborhood schoolkids, who go to class in a one-room schoolhouse [[note]]reality check: there are none in operation anywhere in the real South and haven't been in at least half a century[[/note]], can be easily outsmarted by a pig, and their personal standards are so incredibly low that they think Meg is a goddess.
286*** That particular episode, though, also ended showing some of the South's positive qualities ("We look after our own!"), so it wasn't quite as low a blow as... some ''other'' episodes (see below).
287** The episode "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows" has a (Emmy-winning) musical number that contains the throwaway line "The country's changed, that is, except the South", accompanied by a shot that looks like it belongs in "To Live and Die in Dixie".
288** Despite not even going to the South this time, the episode "Airport '07" starts with Peter becoming a redneck, making fun of said stereotype.
289** It comes up yet again in "Lois Kills Stewie", this time targeting North Carolina with a sign reading "First in Flight, 48th in Education" (note that this information was very out of date - at the time of the episode's 2007 airing, N.C. was ranked 24th in education). An amnesiac Lois is lost in North Carolina, but finds work at a fat camp for obese kids who keep trying to eat each other. She soon makes a friend at the local small-town diner, who turns out to be a white supremacist, and is assaulted with a blunt object after an anti-Semitic joke when she tries to point out that same train of thought started the Holocaust. This might be ''barely'' justified as part of [[spoiler: Stewie's virtual-reality simulation of what'd happen if he tried to kill Lois]], but it's never treated as an inaccuracy. It certainly fits in with the rest of the show's treatment of the South, and, if anything, is even meaner-spirited than those earlier portrayals. There are no ridiculous accents this time, at least. [[note]]In reality, there are Klan chapters in every single state in the country, not just the South; the Klan reached the pinnacle of their power in Indiana in the 1920's, not Mississippi in the 1960's; those blonde twin girls who sing White Power songs are from California.[[/note]]
290** The episode "Boys Do Cry" is set in Texas. You can tell the writers had a fun time with that one.
291** "Back to the Pilot" hits two of the writers' favorite targets, the South and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, at the same time. Brian manages to prevent [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]] by warning himself in 1999; this causes Bush to lose the 2004 election because he didn't have the threat of terrorism with which to scare people, so he turns the Deep South into a new Confederacy and enters a nuclear war with the United States that ruins the country.
292** If that wasn't enough, they've been doing it from '''''the very first episode!'''''
293-->'''Brian:''' It's amazing; you can barely drive a car and yet you're allowed to fly a blimp.\
294'''Peter:''' Yeah, I know, America's great, isn't it? 'Cept for the South.
295** The episode "Cool Hand Peter" revolves around the stereotypical corrupt sherrif interring the Peter, Joe, Cleveland and Quagmire, and there's a DeletedScene that parodied ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'':
296-->'''Cleveland''': These backwoods parts of the deep south ain't a place for a man to get lost in.\
297(cutaway)
298-->'''Redneck''': I'm gon' make you squeal like a pig.
299-->'''Other Redneck''': And I'm gon' make ''you'' squeal like a pig. ''(to the camera)'' ''Deep'' south.
300* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' featured two episodes revealing Fred's paternal ancestors were hillbillies from the state of "Arkanstone", and that they were all wiped out in a long-running feud with the Hatrock family. Said feud was revived when the Flintstones and Rubbles visit Arkanstone to claim an estate Fred had inherited.
301** Although "Arkanstone" works as a typical Flintstones PunnyName, it's also a case of geographical artistic license (or RuleOfFunny) since the Hatfield/[=McCoy=] feud occurred along the Tug River, which forms part of the border between Kentucky and West Virginia (both culturally very Southern but historically ambiguous), nowhere near Arkansas.
302* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
303** Pays a visit to the submerged, forgotten city of... UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}. Yes, ''Atlanta'', largest city in Georgia and a major metropolitan area. Apparently the 1000-year timeskip has regressed this city back into a municipality inhabited by southern dandies, as all the "quality" people ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Jane Fonda]]) left when they airlifted the entire city out to float the ocean, built too much on it, and it sank. Also they all evolved into mermaids due to the proximity of the Coca-Cola bottling plant. Appropriately, the episode this is from is called "The Deep South".
304** Another big example in ''Futurama'': the backwards redneck farmer... on the Moon. There is even a Confederate jack painted over his lunar car. The Moon will rise again!
305* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Cletus the Slack-jawed Yokel, his wife Brandine and all their children evoke all clichés about Southern hillbillies.
306** Whenever either Bart or Lisa imagine themselves as obese, they also get a southern accent for some reason.
307* [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-570997817440305842 Alabama Man]] from the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Chinpokomon".[[note]]"Not all people from Alabama are wife-beaters."[[/note]]
308** They did it again in "Worldwide Recorder Concert" where the class all travels to Arkansas, and Mr Garrison is forced to confront his father about molestation, [[spoiler:specifically, why his dad ''didn't'' molest him.]] The episode goes on to insinuate that Arkansans [[spoiler:other than Mr Garrison, Sr.]] are a bunch of child molesters.
309* ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'' This is one of the biggest offenders. Every single character, with the exception of the very smart, business-good, but arrogant and petty Dan Halen, is either inbred, a moron, a criminal, or as politically incorrect as can possibly be, and combinations of any of these are hardly uncommon.
310* Mostly subverted in ''WesternAnimation/StrokerAndHoop''. For example when Hoop tries a pair of fake gross teeth to "fit in" his cousin that lives there is offended and even gets out a phone book to show they have plenty of dentists.
311* David Banner's ''That Crook'd Sipp'' was a OneEpisodeWonder about the Beauregards, a dysfunctional family whose members embodied just about every unflattering Southern stereotype imaginable, from stuffy Old South plantation owners to unwashed rednecks.
312* Appears 2000 years in the future in ''WesternAnimation/ThundarrTheBarbarian'', when the hero in question encounters a SmallTownTyrant sheriff in the populated ruins of 'Lanta.
313* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': Scott and Sugar, despite being Canadians like everyone else on the show, fit many of the stereotypes associated with the American South (Sugar even has a noticeable Southern accent). This is probably due to the fact that their real-life inspirations (Russell Hantz and Alana "Honey Boo-Boo" Thompson respectively) are both known for hailing from the South.
314* ''WesternAnimation/WallyGator'' has various characters like this, due to where some of the episodes were set. The main offender was a redneck turnip grower called Mr. Swampywater who was trigger-happy and angry, but there was also Harmony (a stereotypical SouthernBelle alligator) and Beauregard (a beefy male alligator with tints of SouthernFriedPrivate who still wore the confederate symbol on his cap, although he wasn't exactly stupid). Wally himself is portrayed more at home in the Deep South outside of his title series, often being found in swamps in crossovers (like ''Yogi's Great Escape'', which also showed him to be good at cooking things like gumbo) and excelling at events set in and around water, especially marshes (in ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'').
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318!!The Trope Maker
319* The 1996 Summer UsefulNotes/OlympicGames:
320** When the Olympics were held in Usefulnotes/{{Atlanta}}, the ''New Yorker'' had a cartoon ("Too Busy City") on the cover in sepia (like an old photo), with a hayseed with straw in his mouth at the Olympics, wearing a sash inscribed with the word "HOWDY" and flanked with not one, not two, but ''three'' chickens. It received some very angry letters.
321** On the other hand, when Creator/JeffFoxworthy made very similar, if not worse, jokes about the very same subject, there was no uproar whatsoever, [[NWordPrivileges since he himself is from Atlanta]].
322** Many Atlantans do, however, credit the Olympics for making them a modern city. Even Foxworthy himself admits Atlanta was "just a town" when he was growing up there.
323** Partly as a response to the criticism of Atlanta hosting the Olympics, the rural community of East Dublin, Georgia, located about 140 miles (~225 km) southeast of Atlanta, hosted the "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Games Redneck Games]]" annually from 1996 to 2012 in celebration of the trope, with events such as "bobbing for pig's feet" and the "mud-pit belly flop". The concept has been since copied in other places, including those north of the Mason-Dixon line, such as Malone, New York and Minto, Ontario.
324* In ''A Walk Across America'', Peter Jenkins described how he did just that, from UsefulNotes/{{New York|State}} to Louisiana. In the picture he paints of the South in the 1970s, certain parts play this trope straight; others avert it. In one town, a small contingency of police basically ordered him to leave and vaguely threatened to hang him if he didn't. In the next town, however, a hospitable family actually "adopted" him for a few months as he worked at a local factory to replenish his cash. In an Alabama town, he was threatened by a group of men, but when he explained to them that they were confirming this trope's stereotypes, they backed off. One of the men felt so bad about the incident he invited Jenkins to come eat with his family.
325* The portrayal of churches as Baptist is pretty well justified. The Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Protestant denomination in the US, and every Southern state has a Baptist plurality or majority except Florida (a Catholic plurality driven by Cuban immigrants and Northern retirees) and Texas (Catholic plurality, though East Texas is overwhelmingly Baptist), though the Cajun and Creole populations form a significant Catholic pocket in Louisiana's French Triangle region. The only non-Southern state with a Baptist plurality is Missouri, which is considered a border state, and southern Missouri is culturally aligned with the South. However, the qualifier '''Southern''' Baptist is very important for this discussion. The Baptist church in America began in UsefulNotes/RhodeIsland in 1638, but arguments over slavery led the Southern Baptists to split off into a separate group in 1845, with the Northern Baptists reorganizing as the American Baptist denomination, which is much less conservative in its theology and politics than the SBC. Since it's repudiated its white supremacist roots and has spread far beyond the South, there has been a push to rename the Southern Baptist Convention (a few churches have relabeled themselves as Great Commission Baptist).
326* [[http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/14/us/bubba-southern-stereotypes/ This article]] talks about the portrayal of the South in fiction and compares it to reality.
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328!!Other Countries
329* Some countries have a local version of this stereotype:
330** In UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}}, this could be inverted as the ''Deep North'', as Mexican Northerners have similar stereotypes as their American peers, except they tend to be more outspoken than their countrymen from the rest of the country. Curiously, the Mexican Deep South, while it has some points in common with the American one, tends to be more the opposite version of the Northern one, not to mention, while the Mexican North, West and Central parts of the country are staunchly Catholic, on the other hand in the Mexican South, Protestant sects and sometimes even ''Islam'' tends to be the most notorious churches in that region.
331*** Another odd stereotype about Mexican Northerners, especially those from the city of Monterrey or the whole state of Nuevo Leon, is the fact they're normally stereotyped in Mexican media as being greedy, basically turning them into the Mexican version of the GreedyJew stereotype.[[note]]There is an historical reason for this: It turns out many European (of Jewish origin), and also Arab immigrants went to the Northern Mexican states, since those states are too close to the U.S. and some of their traditions and work ethic ended being assimilated by the local culture, to the grade, due to the cultural osmosis and outright ignorance regarding Jewish and Arab cultures, the whole GreedyJew stereotype is now used to ''everyone'' else from the North, regardless the ethnicity or religion of the person. Also, the normal stereotype of the Greedy Northerner is a guy dressed like a cowboy, with a thick Northern accent, normally a hardcore Catholic and with ''lots'' of money to burn. In fact, many jokes about Jews in Mexico are [[{{Woolseyism}} replaced]] with jokes about Northerners instead there.[[/note]]
332** UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} also has the ''Deep North''. The term is sometimes used for Queensland, which actually has a history of plantations (sugarcane rather than cotton) staffed by labourers some of whom were forcibly abducted from across the sea (the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Islander South Sea Islanders]]), as well as the second most rural population of any Australian state. In this sense, it is somewhat similar to Alabama. Its education system has been described as [[http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/10/22/3615647.htm "the least secular in the country".]] Pauline Hanson, a politician whose short career was based on campaigning on such issues as the 'danger' Australia would be 'swamped by Asians', was more popular in Queensland than anywhere else. And during the 1970s and 1980s, Queensland was ruled with an iron fist by state premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, who eventually stepped down in the wake of a massive corruption scandal. For these reasons and others, Queensland is often stereotyped as redneck, or else as the Australian version of OnlyInFlorida.
333** UsefulNotes/{{Norway}} has this split fairly down the middle, while both kinds are to be found in the extreme South and west of the country. The "bible belt" of Norway is placed along the coastline from cape Lindesnes all the way to Stavanger, and the usual stereotype is justified by the many "prayer houses" and small local sects (some of them insanely local), as well as a lot of squabbling on the "righteous" way of living. If a priest shows up in Norwegian media, like a Movie or a TV series, he is traditionally prone to have a Southern accent due to the strong religious piousness in the area. As for the "redneck" part - there is the valley of Setesdal. This valley didn´t have a proper road until at least 1845, and the Railway came much later. MedievalStasis was a practical result of this, and inbreeding was commonplace. To make Things even more interesting, a lot of fights and knife nuts are being reported there. When a guy from the Coastal areas was asked about his wiew of the valley dwellers, he responded: "something between Neanderthals and baboons", roughly translated. Inverted by a Rich Cultural inheritance, both in music and silver workings, as well as wood carving.
334** In [[UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom Britain]], this niche is filled by UsefulNotes/EastAnglia and UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry, two largely agricultural regions which in the main were bypassed by the Industrial Revolution. All the tropes of yokels, inbreeding, hostility to outsiders, and a generally held perception that to adjust to local time you need to set your watch back by two centuries, are to be found here. Further reinforcing this is the fact that the American South was settled mainly by people from the West Country, East Anglia, Scottish Border, and Ulster.
335** The [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Canadian provinces]] of Alberta and UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} are sometimes perceived as being the "South" of Canada. For Alberta it's usually due to the more conservative political leaning and focus on oil, gas and agricultural industries, while for Québec it's due to the fierce protection of French Québec culture by Québecers which has led to tensions with English-speakers and immigrants, as well as its similar history to the South, such as historically lagging behinds its peers economically and socially until the [=1960s=] and being considerably more religious. Within Québec specifically there is a notion that the further you get from UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} the more backwards and racist people are. One small town in Québec, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herouxville#Code_of_conduct Hérouxville]], became infamous in January 2007 for publishing a "Code of Conduct" which was seen as a barely subtle attempt at intimidating immigrants (especially Muslims) into staying out of the city.
336** UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}} has both a Deep South and a Deep North, which both share similarities with the American stereotype
337*** The south (specifically the South Region), people are stereotyped as being racist and even [[ArgentinaIsNaziLand Nazi]] and speak a funny accent, and the region has a tendency to vote towards conservative politics. There is also the notion that the further you get away from the cities, the more backwrds and racist people are. For these reasons and others, the South Region is stereotyped as being the Brazilian equivalent to Canada's UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} province.
338*** The north (specifically the Nordeste) has a history of plantations staffed by slaves taken from Africa. It is also has among the largest rural populations in the country. People there are stereotyped as being poor (due to it being comparable to Appalachia), not too bright or even inbred, and having a (different) funny accent. In an inverse of the usual politics associated with this trope, the region tends to vote for leftist politicians.
339** UsefulNotes/{{France}} has both a Deep South and a Deep North, which both share similarities with the American stereotype.
340*** In the South (mostly eastern Occitanie and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), people are stereotyped as being racist, having a funny accent, using "[[CountryMatters con]]"[[note]]Or should we say, "cong"[[/note]] as a punctuation and drinking a lot of pastis. While these are partially derived for the famed [[TheRival rivalry]] between Paris and Marseilles, some of them have a kernel of truth, such as Vitrolles (a city near Marseilles) being among the first cities in France to elect a mayor from the Front National , a nationalist far-right party, and the Rassemblement National being popular in the region to this day.
341*** In the North (especially the Hauts de France region), people are stereotyped as being poor (due to it being comparable to the "Rust Belt"), not too bright or even inbred, having a (different) funny accent, as well as racist, while the weather is almost constantly rainy. While some of these are partially true (as such the Rassemblement National is popular here too), many of these were lenghly discussed and partially [[DiscreditedTrope discredited]] by the movie ''Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis'', which made a point that, at the end of the day, they aren't so different to the rest of France, and that some clichés are outright false.
342** UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} has both a Deep South and a Deep North with the Kansai and Tohoku regions respectively, which both share similarities with the American stereotype.
343*** In [[TheIdiotFromOsaka Kansai]] (save for Kyoto), people are stereotyped as lacking in [[JapanesePoliteness mannerisms]], having a funny accent, greedy, hot-headed, alchoholic, gluttonous and perverted. While these are partially derived for the famed [[TheRival rivalry]] between Tokyo and Osaka, some of them have a kernel of truth, such as Edo-era society aspiring to the Samurai culture of Edo, who valued reserve and dignity, and considered the more commercial-minded Osakans' focus on business to be rude and uncouth and thus below themselves.
344*** In Tohoku (especially the Aomori prefecture), people are stereotyped as being poor, not too bright or even inbred, and having a (different) funny accent, while the weather is almost constantly rainy and it snows real hard in the winter.
345** The former UsefulNotes/EastGermany is regarded like this by Western & Southern Germany, ever since the Berlin Wall came down and [[UsefulNotes/TheBerlinRepublic Germany was reunited]], thanks to 4 decades of Soviet-imposed central planning and closed borders in the East. [[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/07/east-germany-west-far-right-afd-gdr Here's one explanation]].
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