How is your region portrayed in pop culture?

When I think of Atlanta I think of Matlock, maybe Gone with the Wind.

Out here in Oregon - I think the SciFi show Eureka gets it best - minus the crazy science stuff. Dante's Peak wasn't too far off.

 

How people act now region to region is almost a chicken or egg question.

How a region is portrayed nowadays becomes a self fulfilling prophesy.

 

I've been watching Memphis Beat. They've done both.

 

Watch the family guy. That's pretty much all we got.

 

Not Something About Mary?

 

Despite what you may have seen in the movies not all the baseball fields in my home state are surrounded by corn fields.

And don't get me started on the fucking Music Man.

 

Don't tell me. The fan had those little paper streamers on it, right?

 

Not quite my neck of the woods, but close enough and I have enough ties to claim Louisiana, where everybody is a badass cajun street fighter who lives in a swamp shack and knows a voodoo shaman or three.

 

Don't forget the atrocious attempts at a Southern accent.

 

I've had visitors to my current city ask where all the cowboys are. What's sad is if they'd go to the town I was born is, just half an hour away, they'd probably run into more than one working ranch hand complete with spurs and a saddled horse in the gooseneck trailer.

 

I was born in Appalachia and I live in New Jersey.
Completely fucked.

Willing to argue endlessly against either stereotype, though.

 

Not even close. (Maybe West Tennessee because it's basically a different state). No way in hell do people drink Zima. Photoshop in a beer and you might be close.

Andrew Dice Clay is pretty much how we picture most Nu Yowkas, though.