The Dukes of Hazzard

One movie that really stands out to me as portraying the South in the typical Redneck stereotype is "The Dukes of Hazzard". The two main characters Bo and Luke help with their uncle's moonshine business while running from cops in their car named "General Lee". After Bo and Luke are evicted from their farm, they participate in the annual Hazzard Road Race Rally to try to get their farm back.

The rough synopsis itself is enough to establish a hillbilly stereotype usually associated with the South. The characters' accents, speech and all-around lifestyles are typical assumptions outsiders make of people from the South, and the movie helps fortify these stereotypes in some peoples' minds. Not all southerners (in fact very few southerners) live or act like this movie on an everyday basis. I personally don't know anyone who drives a souped-up racing car with "Dixie Land" as its horn, but as these stereotypes continue to be portrayed in movies, people will keep believing they could be true.