moonlight-and-magnolia

moonlight-and-magnolia (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to romanticized historical portrayals of the American South, often depicting slavery in a positive light.
   • 2013, David Chinitz, Which Sin to Bear?, page 34:

     Here the myth of a moonlight-and-magnolia South founders on dry empirical realities.

   • 2014, Cynthia Stretch, Cristina Alsina Rísquez, Innocence and Loss, page 33:

     The romantic South of myth and legend, the “moonlight and magnolia” South with which plantation epics captured the national imagination in the era of the Lost Cause, has acquired a nightmarish quality; […]

   • 2016, Alfred L. Brophy, University, Court, and Slave, page 84:

     If a white employer could take so much interest in the child of a black employee, in whom he had no property interest, that would illustrate—as did Hentz's other fiction—the moonlight and magnolia world of Southerners' concern for their slaves.