Hoke is driving Miss Daisy to her uncle's birthday party in Mobile Alabama. Just after they leave Georgia and enter Alabama, Hoke tells Miss Daisy that this is the first time he's left the state of Georgia. Sometime later, while in Alabama, they pull off to the side of the road and stop for a picnic lunch that Idella had packed for them. Just before departing, two State Troopers walk over to question Hoke as to what he was doing with a car like that.
The State Troopers' badges and arm patches indicated they were Georgia State Troopers, not Alabama.