american south: sweaty black people walking around or working with bright blue skies with white women using fans to air their faces. lots of dirt roads. have someone speak in the stupidest drawl you can
As someone who has always lived in the south, this is mostly accurate though.
Segregation is very much still a thing in the south. Black people are often forced to live in separate neighborhoods because of systemic racism. Then white people in the south will be like "Don't go to that neighborhood, it's a bad neighborhood" and it's just like black people existing there. In the south, black people are sometimes forced to live in entirely separate towns from white people.
There are lots of dirt roads because the infrastructure is shit and the government is run by chuds who block any sort of new infrastructure from going in.
Here's a secret about the southern accent. It is very performative. The stupider drawl you have, the more southern cred you have. That's it. If you don't participate in the performance, people think you're weird. People in the south will make fun of you for not doing the stupid drawl.
There's also confederate flags everywhere. There's white people who casually use the hard-r in public and people think it's normal. There's no labor unions.
The inaccuracy of the way that movies portray the American south is that they don't go far enough. The stupidest southern drawl that you've heard in a movie is not a fraction of how stupid southern drawls actually are. The American south is way more reactionary and racist than a movie should even portray. Movies should not accurately portray the south because the movie would be too racist and reactionary.
american south: sweaty black people walking around or working with bright blue skies with white women using fans to air their faces. lots of dirt roads. have someone speak in the stupidest drawl you can
As someone who has always lived in the south, this is mostly accurate though.
Segregation is very much still a thing in the south. Black people are often forced to live in separate neighborhoods because of systemic racism. Then white people in the south will be like "Don't go to that neighborhood, it's a bad neighborhood" and it's just like black people existing there. In the south, black people are sometimes forced to live in entirely separate towns from white people.
There are lots of dirt roads because the infrastructure is shit and the government is run by chuds who block any sort of new infrastructure from going in.
Here's a secret about the southern accent. It is very performative. The stupider drawl you have, the more southern cred you have. That's it. If you don't participate in the performance, people think you're weird. People in the south will make fun of you for not doing the stupid drawl.
There's also confederate flags everywhere. There's white people who casually use the hard-r in public and people think it's normal. There's no labor unions.
The inaccuracy of the way that movies portray the American south is that they don't go far enough. The stupidest southern drawl that you've heard in a movie is not a fraction of how stupid southern drawls actually are. The American south is way more reactionary and racist than a movie should even portray. Movies should not accurately portray the south because the movie would be too racist and reactionary.
The failure to fully reconstruct the South after the Civil War is one of America's greatest tragedies.
Some bridges in the South that had been destroyed were not even fixed till after WWI.
i forgot to mention banjo music
Two elderly black men sitting on the porch in overalls or plaid shirts and jeans
Old skinny white guy running the small gas station
Cut to shot of white father and son walking home from a hunt in the forest with guns slung on their shoulders