Response to Southern Stereotypes: Alexis Noel

Due to the fact that I live in a true southern county in North Carolina, I often get entangled with these stereotypes from day to day. I have a great example for this blog topic:
In North Carolina, fireworks are banned (except for the dinky sparklers). The good fireworks you have to buy down in South Carolina. So, earlier I had traveled down to Myrtle Beach in SC and on the way back I got a good amount of fireworks for fourth of July (the kind that shoot up in the air and go boom). Fourth of July night, I went out to a local soccer field. There were a few people burning off snakes and tiny little things. After I ran out of my fireworks, I started to walk back to my car when a pick up truck blasting country music skids up next to the field. Out pops this pot-bellied man in jeans and a white t-shirt, carrying an enormous firework (at least 2 or 3 feet wide and 2 or 3 feet tall). He pulls up a beach chair, takes a beer out of a cooler and lights his firework. His show lasted a good 3 or 4 minutes, then he finished off his beer, packed up his beach chair and drove off.
I agree that this stereotype fits a good many people in the south. You may see them at NASCAR, or at a local barbeque pit, or even lighting off an illegal firework on fourth of July.