Southern Men

For my paper i am thinking about doing on the stereotypes of southern men in film. Just like all other stereotypes a group is made out to be all the same, in this case southern men are made out to be dumb hicks in movies like Forrest Gump and My Cousin Vinny. But after looking around the web at different blogs my results were mixed. When i first looked up blogs of southern white men i found most people supporting my claim that southern men are stereotyped as hateful people who say offensive things like in this blog http://choptensils.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-stereotypes-my-own.html

for no other reason then what they have come to expect out of these men. I think like other stereotypes its unfair to categorize southern men this way. Another blog that i visited dealt with old fashioned stereotypes about what a southern man "should" be like and while this is a little more extreme case of the masculinity that the average man must deal with it still applies to points i will be focusing on in my research paper. http://books.google.com/books?id=PqWR2y-FKfYC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=stereotypes+of+southern+men&source=bl&ots=qe795OAv_E&sig=aW3LeV_mTu2rYL-MPieGJmbWmtE&hl=en&ei=uw-RScTnINe4twf4zeTQCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result

I am very interested to see some of the things i may have missed in the movies i will be watching since the first time around i did not really focus much on teh stereotypes that may have been present.