I am currently reading "Beautiful Creatures" by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. It is a paranormal love story taking place in the deep south. All of the characters except for Ethan (the main character), the Ravenwood-Duchannes family, and his Librarian Aunt Marian, seem to be stereotypical southerners; uneducated, confederate, religious finatics. They speak in "yalls" and southern drawls, and are portrayed as stupid and bad.
I think it was unfair of the authors to portray all southerners this way. Not everyone coming from the South this way, and Ethan is the only southerner in the book (although he has lived in Gatlin his whole life) who does not have a drawl.
Why did Garcia and Stohl choose to make every Southern character stupid and stereotyped?
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