One incorrect historical thing about The Beverly Hillbillies was that Granny was a Confederate and proudly waved the Stars and Bars and actually believed the South won the war.

In actuality, hill people in the South were mainly Unionists, since the vast majority of them were not slave owners, and that the Confederacy did not offer them anything that the Union could not. As a matter of fact, when I was in high school, I learned that Eastern Tennessee almost split with the rest of the state like West Virginia to stay in the Union.

Mountain people were loyalists, not Confederates. Confederates were southern flatlanders.

whatever; it was just a sitcom.

I've always wondered HOW Granny would have felt about slavery.

She was SO proud of the South winning the war, but that is MAINLY what the war was about, the South wanted SLAVES.

And PLEASE don't let the "it's just a TV show, who cares?" response leak here from IMDB, that response is all over IMDB, that's why I'm starting to like this place MUCH better, b/c you can actually DISCUSS things.

I mean we KNOW it's just a sitcom, but that's the purpose of these forums is to DISCUSS it. I mean you could reply that to everything.

It is possibable that she believe it was the north that wanted the slaves. Consdering her belief that the south won.

I've always wondered HOW Granny would have felt about slavery.

She was SO proud of the South winning the war, but that is MAINLY what the war was about, the South wanted SLAVES.

And PLEASE don't let the "it's just a TV show, who cares?" response leak here from IMDB, that response is all over IMDB, that's why I'm starting to like this place MUCH better, b/c you can actually DISCUSS things.

I mean we KNOW it's just a sitcom, but that's the purpose of these forums is to DISCUSS it. I mean you could reply that to everything.
interesting....I never thought about that. She probably would have been for it.

It is possibable that she believe it was the north that wanted the slaves. Consdering her belief that the south won.


I will say though Granny did NOT seem racist at all, and she was the type of person that if she didn't like something, she let you KNOW it, and there were black ppl on the show and she never showed any ill feelings toward them.

And I know it was 1960s TV, but I do remember an episode of Bewitched that dealt with racism, Darrin had a racist client, so if they wanted to impy Granny was racist, I'm sure they could have gotten away with it.

Oddly enough from what I remember studying, wasn't it Grant who actually HAD slaves, but Robert E Lee did NOT believe in slavery and had none, but he just didn't feel like he was in a position to abolish it since so many of his followers wanted them.

Even if Granny being pro-confederacy was historically inaccurate the writers on Beverly Hillbillies took full advantage of Granny's pro-south stance and created some very funny episodes around it!!