I know what you mean.
Im from Alabama too.
But I really don't care about stereotypes.
It's terrible that it happened in Alabama.
It's even more terrible that it happened in the town that I grew up in.
I just laughed it off.
At least now I can say,
"Im from Sylvania Yes, that Sylvania."
I think that is great, it would have been even better if she was riding the horse in the buck with a straw hat on. Then that would have been a real down south hill billy.
I seriously said, "what the fuck" outloud while reading that. Only in Alabama... I've been down there a lot and know it's not horrid, but that definitely doesn't surprise me.
Good point on stereotypes, they come to light b/c of similarities. What's so wrong about judgments? we constantly make judgments all the time.