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A Primer on Understanding Southern Culture: Truths, Untruths and Stereotypes
Truths, Untruths and Stereotypes The stereotypes of the South are often perpetrated by Hollywood, the mainstream media and academia. Movies often show Southerners as being uneducated, uncouth and backwards. Even Hollywood’s renditions of John Grisham’s novels use the stereotypes of Southerners to continue the myths concerning the South. In the minds of many Northerners, the …