I should note that Georgia does not have a monopoly on culture.
I grew up in the backwoods of Oregon in a valley that was full of good folk who were light on the education and perhaps not the sorts of people that non-Irish Bostonians and the traditional elite of Philadelphia would hang out with.
Perhaps a decade ago I made contact with a guy I had grown up with who had gone on and made something of himself, and he said that whenever he was asked what was it like where he grew up, he referenced Deliverance.
Powers would be my go-to town for “Deliverance” jokes. A guy I knew as a neighbor on Elrod recently moved back to Oregon, and settled in Powers. Apparently there was some corrupt circumstance involving the town’s law enforcement, and my former neighbor made a crusade of it. Bad idea. He’s since moved back to the Midwest, encouraged by many death threats to himself, his wife, and their dogs.
Someone once referenced a Neighborhood Watch in Powers. I pictured 2guyd with shotguns and shovels.
The Northeast Kingdom of Vermont was where they would take the people from Appalachia and teach them how to be poor.