From sweet tea and grits to country music and pickup trucks, the South faces some stereotypes. When you visit Charleston do you come with stereotypes in mind? Once you arrive, are those stereotypes confirmed or contradicted?
In the wake of Bubba Watson’s Masters golf win, CNN published “The South” Not all Bubbas and banjos,” a look at the stereotypes that often plague the South.
“Bubba’s name echoed as much through the pines on Sunday as the roars. He was embraced in this Southern town as if he drank, smoked, hunted and fished,” wrote the Augusta Chronicle’s Scott Michaux, before adding, “In truth, Bubba doesn’t do any of those things.”
That’s the thing about the South. It’s got all those stereotypes, but it confounds you at every turn.
Never mind that Dixie can be as polyglot as any other part of the United States, with rising Hispanic and south Asian populations, the world’s busiest airport and a thriving movie and television business. Never mind that Lowcountry South Carolina has little in common with the Florida Panhandle or Tennessee foothills, or that there’s a growing purplish tinge among what’s usually seen as a collection of dyed-in-the-cotton red states.
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