There has been a lot of talk on all the things missing from TAGS that wouldn't have been authentic Southern. If you think about the south in the 60's it was not our proudest era. The show never touched on race relations either. I think they wanted the show to appeal to everyone. It was located in North Carolina but they weren't trying to beat that part of the show into the ground. I think Andy Griffith had a much more balanced view of the south in the relation to our northern friends that is missing today. Southerners today seemed to try to hard to make sure everyone knows there from the south and we do things differently. Texas unfortunately seems to be the worst about this and that is my home state. Even in Texas the traditions between west Texans and east Texans are different and phrases are different. I live in Fredericksburg and things here are way different than the next town to the north which is Llano. There are several Llanoisms that are not said here in Fredericksburg. I imagine all over the south that is the case. There may have even been places in the south where sweet tea was call called iced tea and coke was called pop.
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