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Southern Fried Rabbit is a Looney Tunes cartoon by Warner Brothers currently not in American circulation due to some racial issues raised in the film. The film was directed by Friz Freleng and first released on May 2, 1953. A newspaper date however places the events on September 2, 1952.

This film features Bugs Bunny attempting to flee to Alabama to escape a carrot famine. His attempt to cross the Mason-Dixon line is stopped by Yosemite Sam, a zealous soldier of the Confederate States of America.

Sam was reportedly ordered by General Robert E. Lee to guard the borders between the Confederate States and the United States during the American Civil War (1861 - 1865). He is oblivious to the fact that the war ended "almost ninety years ago" and continues to await newer orders from General Lee. He refuses to allow any Yankee to cross the line. Sam remains unaged and vital despite being on guard from the 1860s to the 1950s, having achieved apparent immortality.

Bugs finds himself fighting to cross the line. He disguises himself as Jim Crow, Uncle Tom, Abraham Lincoln, Stonewall Jackson and Scarlett O'Hara to little effect. He at last succeeds in removing Sam from his guarding post after informing him that "the Yankees are in Chattanooga", Tennessee. Sam marches to Chattanooga. The finale has Sam using a rifle to threaten the New York Yankees, preventing them from competing against the Chattanooga Lookouts. Bugs is assumed to have successfully crossed the line by that time.

Bugs being disguised as a stereotyped African American has been the reason of this short accused of racism. However one should note that the stereotypes were the subjects of parody rather than being reinforced.

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