When talking to people not from the South, you sometimes run across certain ones who always ask about common stereotypes in the South. For example, when traveling out of state I have had many different people, upon hearing where I am from, ask me if I hunted, or if I rode ATVs a lot. Most are shocked when they find out that not only do I not do most of these things, but that I also don’t drive a jacked up truck. After this happening many times I began to think, “What would cause them to believe this is how southerners live?” and came to the conclusion that one of the biggest things that affect how others view people from the south is how we are portrayed in movies. People who haven’t had the opportunity to visit the South often only have the media and movies to show them “what southerners are.”
So for this blog topic, find one movie that you feel would cause people from other parts of the country to view the people of the south as the rednecks most movies make southerners out to be. One that stands out blatantly to me is the movie Sweet Home Alabama. This movie contains so many stereotypes and portrays almost all the men from the South as extreme rednecks and southerners in general as idiots.
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