The South is a region of the United States that has a history of stubbornly maintaining its heritage and values. People from the South are considered to be uneducated because of their vastly different lingual dialect. Another major difference between the South and most of the other regions in the United States is that there are churches on every corner instead of Starbucks. Religion is the backbone to the majority of the Southern population’s strong family and life values. In George Singleton’s book, The Half-Mammals of Dixie, the characters and settings alternate between portraying the typical southern stereotypes and challenging them; Singleton sways back and forth between promoting and dismantling the stereotypes because, true to life, every…show more content… The narrator of “Public Relations” is a prime example of Singleton’s typical protagonist, which is a character that sways back and forth between portraying the typical southern stereotype and challenging it. The beginning of the story describes the narrator, V.O., at an important business meeting, in a posh restaurant, surrounded by foreign executive-types; one would not expect the setting of a story about a southern person to be at an upscale restaurant or the character to be a successful, educated executive at a business meeting (Singleton 119). A stereotypical southern setting would possibly be somewhere in the country, in a shack or at a flea market and the lead character would typically be driving a tractor, having a cookout, or tending a booth at a flea market. Later in the
