Pro-Carter?

That generation's Barack Obama?? How's that?? Don't follow!!

I watched it every week, and if anything, the show pretty much spoofed Jimmy Carter, but in a light-hearted way. I wouldn't say it was "pro-Carter", though. It took a few digs at the Southern way of life, the accents and all. Carter was from Georgia after all.

I saw the show and liked it. Carter was president; so people assume that it has to have something to do with that peanut farmer.

Maybe it did. But if so, it was just some studio suit who decided that a Southern setting would be topical.

The show didn't have anything to do with Carter though. If the setting was New York, Wyoming, California, etc., nobody would be linking it to him.

I'm pretty sure it was only named "Carter Country", because Jimmy Carter was from Georgia, where it took place...I can still hear the 'fat little Mayor' saying 'Handle it, handle it!'...there were some gold nuggets of comedy in this show, but definitely is not something that would have transitioned past its short season. Pray no one ever wants to make a movie of this one!!!

je suis prest

I was a big fan of Carter Country back in the day and never missed an episode. To try and politicize it this way is showing your ignorance. It was Carter Country because it took place in the South and was supposed to show the supposed laid back ways of a small Southern town and their small town police department. I don't remember any episodes where they ever tied to comment on the current presidency ( and believe me Jimmy Carter was actually one of the best Presidents this country has ever had) but their gentle digs at Southern life and way of thinking and occasional look at bigotry and racism were very well written. In one episode the only black officer found a racial epitaph written on his garage door and it turned out the son of the older redneck police officer (interesting that only the one officer was a redneck who wasn't happy with the black officer)who said that he did is because he had heard some of the bad things his father had said about the black officer and was just emulating his father. Even though this show has been compared to a backwards In The Heat Of The Night, I saw it more as a Southern style Barney Miller. Oh and by the way I am an Obama supporter as well and fully support the good things that he has done and is trying to do for this country while certain morons keep standing in his way and obstructing this countries recovery.

When Carter got elected there seemed to be a brief cultural fascination with Carter and his folksy background. His brother Billy was in the limelight quite a bit initially, too, even putting his name behind a short-lived beer brand, "Billy Beer". I think it had a lot less to do with politics than Carter's down-home folksy nature.

I also think it was something of the start of the rehabilitation of Southern culture to some degree. The hostility towards them was gone, replaced by a somewhat updated version of the folksy flavor from shows like "Petticoat Junction". While "Carter Country" was a flash in the pan, "Dukes of Hazard" starting in 1979 went on to be a huge hit.

Riddle me this Limbaugh, Drudge and Fox bs oops Fox news lover. Would black Americans who supported Obama in droves vote for Ben Carson or Clarence Thomas? In other words, let me spell it for you, its about the policy not his race. I would vote for David Duke and running mate Lester Maddox before i vote for Carson, Jesse Lee Petersen or Angela Mcglowan.