It is no surprise when yet another Hollywood film demonizes the South as nothing but a den of ignorance, poverty and bigotry. For the most part, Hollywood persists in promoting the fiction that the states of the former Confederacy are stuck in a time warp, somewhere between 1865 and 1968. How many films produced in the last 20 years and set in the South can you name that don't have race relations at their core? Even a brilliant film like Joel and Ethan Coen's "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" can't avoid dredging up the Klan, although, refreshingly, the Coen brothers … Continue reading Hollywood’s War Against the South