I won't say "small town anywhere", that's probably not true. But also true of small town Tennessee.

"Everybody knew" the sheriff took kickbacks from the bootleggers (it was, and still is, a dry county), and probably quite a bit more. I mean, I knew, and I was a high school kid. He did eventually get busted roughly a decade after I left.

Cities have corruption too, of course. But the hypocritical gaslighting nonsense about how pure and clean small town life is horse shit.