The South Ain’t Just Whistlin’ Dixie
This article from New York Times reporter Karen L. Cox outlines southern and Appalchain stereotypes that are enjoying a renewed prevalence in many new TV shows.
Such shows promise new insight into Southern culture, but what they really represent is a typecast South: a mythically rural, white, poorly educated and thickly accented region that has yet to join the 21st century. If you listen closely, you may even hear banjos.