Editing Daisy Duke (section)

== Character ==
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{{Blockquote|text="She drives like [[Richard Petty]], shoots like [[Annie Oakley]], and knows the words to all of [[Dolly Parton]]'s songs."|sign=The Balladeer|source="One Armed Bandits"}}

Daisy Duke is a well-meaning though rather naive, often scantily dressed rogue [[Southern belle]]. As with her cousins Bo and Luke Duke, Daisy has a habit of landing herself/her family in trouble. Despite being naive, Daisy is a very outgoing person and can be quite feisty on occasion. She always believes in doing the right thing and helping others in need. In season one Daisy is shown to be a good driver, but by the start of the second season, she isn't as good of a driver as she was originally implied to be, often being run off the road. Daisy frequently finds herself caught up in the ongoing war between Boss Hogg and her family, the Duke clan. Her job at Boss's tavern gives her the opportunity to eavesdrop on private conversations between Boss, Sheriff Rosco and various cohorts, often discovering important information that she can pass on to Uncle Jesse and the Duke boys. Her continued employment at the Boar's Nest in spite of her obvious loyalty to her family is a sign of her status and popularity in Hazzard County, and a corresponding lack of intelligence on Boss Hogg's part. Boss does in fact fire her on a few occasions, but by various story twists, always ends up re-hiring her by the end of the episode.

As with her cousins, Daisy never finds a long-lasting beau of her own over the course of the series, though Deputy [[Enos Strate]] has a long-running crush on her that spans the life of the series. This crush is largely unrequited, although Daisy is aware of it and often displays genuine care and concern for the likeable Enos. In the penultimate episode of the show's run, "Enos and Daisy's Wedding," the pair plan to hastily get married as a way to avoid Daisy having to testify against Enos, though the situation is eventually resolved before the wedding takes place. In his recurring appearances during the show (typically once per season), Boss Hogg's nephew Hughie also displays a romantic interest in Daisy (he actually feels no genuine respect or affection for her, however; he merely harbors a selfish lust for her beauty), although Daisy loathes the idea, and there is occasionally a vague hint of a possible previous romantic falling-out between the pair. The fourth season opening episode, "Mrs. Daisy Hogg," sees Daisy falling in love and planning to marry another one of Boss's nephews, Jaimie Lee Hogg (the character's only appearance in the series), although before the wedding she realises he is a villain and the marriage is called off. Similarly, in the second-season episode "Duke of Duke," Daisy becomes attracted to a visiting English Duke claiming to be a distant relation of the Duke clan; she eventually finds out he is a con man and again the romance is over.

In the [[The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!|1997 reunion movie]], she is said to have left Hazzard to get married at some point after the original series, but is subsequently divorced. After her marriage ended, she was pursuing a graduate degree at [[Duke University]], and upon her return to Hazzard agrees to marry Enos Strate, who reveals he had been writing weekly love letters to Daisy for many years (tying into Enos's own [[Enos (TV series)|spin-off series]]), but backs out at the last minute due to both the sudden reappearance of her ex-husband, and for fear of another debacle like her first marriage.