I don't know about my favorite southern movie, but my favorite southern TV show would have to be the Andy Griffith Show. The show's main character, played by Andy Griffith, is a sheriff in the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina.
Most of the plot revolves around the sheriff's duties keeping the town in order while taking care of social problems. Both issues are always light, allowing humor and a happy ending.
Despite its great humor and storytelling, the show was still full of southern stereotypes. For example, the town is always peaceful, and the sheriff, Andy Taylor, doesn't even carry a gun, while his deputy carries a gun with only one bullet. The show tries to represent an image of a better time gone by similar to that of Gone With the Wind.
The show was also somewhat racist. It did not show blacks as inferior, because it hardly showed them at all. The show was aired during the height of the civil rights movement, yet there wasn't a single black person with a speaking part in the first five seasons.
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