Did the "inbred Southerner" trope exist before the film Deliverance came out (1972)?
>>18037384Yes.Andy Griffith had some episodes. Even though they was proper good south folk most times.
>>18037384It dates back to the 19th century at least with northern journalists writing sensational accounts of feuding fighting inbred hicks as they travelled the south. Fun fact: the tard in Deliverance couldn’t play the banjo so a double stuck his hands through his coat sleeves and they used selective camera angles.
>>18037384Yeah stemming from the late 1800s when blood fueds were happening
>>18037384https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HillbillyIncest
>>18037384Fall of The House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe is the earliest I can think of.Due to inbreeding, Usher is Described as looking like Nosferatu
>>18037707I hate that site. Someone ought to remove it from the internet
