What Smokey & the Bandit Can Still Teach Us about the “New South” In the summer of 1977 a movie hit the multiplexes, twin cinemas, and dwindling drive-ins of America like […] Share: Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Print (Opens in new window) Print Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Like this:Like Loading...