
Yet one thing has remained the same: audiences form emotional connections with characters.
Cooter Davenport was one of those characters.
People remember fictional personalities because they associate them with periods of their own lives.
For some viewers, watching *The Dukes of Hazzard* was part of childhood.
For others, it was family entertainment.
For still others, it represents a particular period of American television.
When those viewers think about Cooter, they may also remember where they were when they first watched