| I think the problem is her relationship with wealthy plantation owner Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside. They fall in love, and go to his family's plantation in Peckerwood, Georgia. At first, his relatives are unhappy that's he's marrying a Yankee, but they succumb when Mame captures the fox in a fox hunt, and sing her praises ("You made the cotton easy to pick! You've given us the drive again, to make the South revive again" and most problematic, "This time the South will rise again, Mame!") The scene feels very "pro-Confederate." It's possible to view all this as satire - the Southerners are broad caricatures - but I'm guessing it would make some audiences uncomfortable. And rewrites would be difficult (but not impossible), as they would involve the lyrics to the title song. |
