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>>217610
>she's also more of a Southern Belle than a cowgirl.
She's not though. The occasional use of the term by fans remains quite an awkward fit. Southern Belle is a pretty specific archetype, a stereotypical upper class woman from the Antebellum/Plantation South, extremely aristocratic in her genteel manners, charm, mannerisms, and dress, and above all far-removed from the working classes. Even when it's used a bit loosely to refer to "modern day" Southern Belles, lacking the hoop skirt, hat, and gloves of Gone with the Wind, there's still a built-in assumption that this is someone too high-class to normally get their hands dirty. Depending on where you are in the country and your own background it might be considered complimentary or insulting (is it a reference to the spoiled and self-centered Scarlett O'Hara or the genuinely noble Melanie Hamilton?), but any way you dice it, it's meant to be a sort of aristocratic label. Blanche DuBois was showy and snobby even when she didn't remotely have the means to justify it.
You could definitely argue that Bunnie wasn't used to physical labor in the cartoon and first comics (she got tied up with rope a few times...), and the origin she eventually got shows that she came from an Antebellum-inspired aristocracy. But Bunnie herself has become too much of a scrapper for the term to make sense applied to her. She might've been a Belle once, and it'd be interesting to see her past explored a little, but these days she's probably more of a loose "cowgirl" archetype than a Southern Belle.
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