"I'm glad to hear it. It's been so long since I've seen SOTS that I had even forgotten there were poor white children "villains" in it at all. "
I just watched it for the first time since childhood, about 6 or 8 weeks ago, it is a very sweet and wise movie and should be re released.
Another movie you may like is called "The Southerner" made in the 40s, I think of it as closer to my mom's family story than the left wing " The Grapes of Wrath"
While both movies show times of her life, "The Southerner" better captures the noble and decent spirit of her family.
If you haven't read the book "The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats"
by Jim Goad, you should take a look at it.
I have read it. Can't you tell?
Of course I don't agree with it 100% (specifically the obscenities, the Marxist anti-banker, anti-Federalist, pro-IRA, and [especially] anti-Israel bias, as well as his being an atheist, which renders all his causes groundless). But no cracker can read it without feeling exactly the same righteous rage that all members of victimized groups do when awakened for the first time.