Anson also may or may not have been the inspiration for the movie "Footloose" and, as of 1987, still had an enforced "no dancing" law on the books that is/was only lifted for the annual Christmas dance.[http://www.barryshlachter.net/no-dancin-in-anson.html] An effort was made in 1987 to change the ordinance to allow supervised dancing, which was successful. The conflict was the basis for the book, "No Dancin' In Anson: An American Story of Race and Social Change", by University of Texas professor Ricardo Ainslie.