Is Ozark an accurate depiction of rednecks and the American south?

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1. Two different regions. Gump is from Greenbow Alabama. I haven’t seen *Ozarks* but the Ozarks region spans a large amount of land, crossing into multiple states, but most of it is in Missouri. You could cut that area out and make it into its own state of you wanted to.

2. I genuinely want to know how cherry picked your exposure to media was if the idea of “impoverished southerner” was a brand new thing for you.

3. Big difference between rural Alabama and the Ozarks in northern Arkansas/southern Missouri

4. They’re not simply “impoverished”, they’re self selecting to participate in organized crime. Plenty of impoverished people would hate to spread drugs in their community.

5. The Red Green Show is honestly a more accurate depiction.

6. No, most people are not part of international drug smuggling operations.

7. No. TV is not real life.

8. It’s tv it’s highly dramatized, it’s also two different regions, different states, different areas within those states. Tv is something else man. We gotta stop exporting our tv and movies because this is ridiculous lol

   Poor people typically share the same traits all over the world plus or minus a few things

9. I thought the show taught the difference between hillbillies and rednecks.

   Ozark has hillbillies mostly.

10. Its as accurate about Missouri Rednecks as it is about financial advisors from Naperville.

11. Are the Ozarks even really considered “The South” like that? It’s mostly the northernmost part of Arkansas and the bottom half of Missouri. Sort of where the south changes to the Midwest, there weren’t even many slaves in that area because of the topography. It’s hardly Alabama or Mississippi in terms of being historically and culturally the South.

12. No

13. Not even the same region. Ozark is an area that really isn’t the south Missouri mostly which is a southern/midwestern border state similar to Kansas and Tennessee. It was filmed in and around Atlanta though which might explain it feeling like its the south.

    Forest Gump takes place in Alabama.

14. No. Most of us Ozarkians are not in international drug smuggling rings.

15. No. Rednecks are not a ubiquitous thing or the same even in the same state.

16. No. The south has varied culture: someone from Atlanta Georgia is not the same as someone from middle of nowhere Arkansas. Hell my state Tennessee is divided on culture especially between West Tennessee and East/Middle Tennessee. Also IDK why everyone thinks we are poor: Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Asheville, and Winston Salem are all fast growing cities hell Atlanta has tons of major companies head quartered there (Chick Fil A, Home Depot, Norfolk Southern, Georgia Pacific, Delta Airlines, ect)

17. I really need foreigners to understand that just bc somebody lives in the south does not make them a red neck lmao

    My kiwi and Aussie friends constantly do this and it’s so cringy. They’re just southern people. Red necks is a a specific type of southern person.