With all due respect to KFC and Popeye’s, whose products I have enjoyed, authentic southern fried chicken bears little resemblance to fast food fried chicken. You need to travel down south and eat at non-franchised hole in the wall restaurants where cast iron chicken fryers are passed down from generation to generation. I doubt KFC or Popeye’s soak their chicken pieces in buttermilk overnight, or take care to use fresh peanut oil or lard to fry their chicken. That’s what I think of when I think about ethnic American cuisine. I hope that’s what the OP was thinking about when he posted his question.