The Walking Dead and the post-apocalyptic South

AWESOMEoutof10's David Chandler examines The Walking Dead and the role race plays in a world gone to Hell. "Telltale’s The Walking Dead recognizes the impetus for Southern narrative to build conflict around race and ultimately moves beyond such a script, not to trivialize such stories, but to offer a different version of the South no longer governed by those same racial and social politics. The game invokes those familiar aspects of Southern literature to posit an unfixed and deeply complicated vision of the South where people constantly move forward together despite the persistent threat of being consumed by a tragic past that only persists among the restless dead."