Higgins is a man. Won't watch it. James West was anglo,so is the Gunslinger.Buford Pusser was a real guy, couldn't have been the recent portrayal. Dr. Who is male, so is James Bond. Sick of revisionist shows and movies, don't support them.

OK, ignoring your ignorant insult I suggest the following improvements in character development for revisionist shows;
Shaft 2018 with Kevin Costner as the street wise John Shaft
The MLK Story starring Anthony Hopkins
Bruce Lee Returns with Chris Tucker as the little dragon
The new Murphy Brown starring Liam Nielsen as the hard-hitting Newsperson
The Andy Griffith Show starring Ice Cube
The criticism received for the idiot Director who ruined Steven Kings The Tower character Gunslinger did not come from "Southerners" but top reviewers of Hollywood.
Sometimes it just doesn't work.

I know you accept Higgins as an American historical figure but he actually isn't one...wait Carolina...maybe you think MLK &amp; Lee are fictional?</blockquote
Buford Pusser was a real person, a Sheriff from Tennessee. I hate to be the one to break it to you but you sound like an anti-Carolinadite, you should really work on your bias towards people from other geographical areas and quit searching for something to be offended by. You can thank me later for this sound advice.

Buford Pusser was indeed the hero of Walking Tall, and he was a real person, replaced by The Rock. I like the Rock but replacing a historical person with another that doesn't fit the image or reality of that person rarely works. I will admit he is a local hero but Hollywood dollars should do nothing to take away from this mans achievements.
Roland from the Tower series by Steven King was a Cowboy, in the mold of Clint Eastwood with some Jonah Hex thrown in. Like all true fans I waited for years to see a good adaptation of this guy and it didn't happen, a big fail that translated into lost profits.
Wild Wild West sucked as a Movie because Robert Conrad was too old to come back and Artie was dead. The travesty they tried to pass off using this franchise was bad, real bad. They didn't properly engage the true fans or they just didn't care.

Forever the younger viewer will associate "Walking Tall" with the revisionist version. It fails to appreciate this one mans efforts to clean out vice and corruption in Mcnairy County using alternative, sometimes heroic and out of the box means to do so.
It turned important History into an action thriller devoid of truth.

I'm sure you are pretending to be ignorant of the two characters but Buford T Justice was a fictional character played by Jackie Gleason in Smoky and the Bandit.
Buford Pusser was a real person in Tennessee, several movies were made based on his exploits as Sheriff.
I can understand your hostility considering the only local hero you have is U.S. Grant.
When you are visiting Tennessee I would be careful vocalizing disdain for Buford Pusser, a lot of people still care.