I was born and raised in California. I have never even been to or in the South, so I'm gonna give an opinion. What used to be the "American culture", in terms of values, attitudes and tradition is lost, except for the South. Southerners remain the repository of real America and its values. If our country is to be returned to its roots, it will begin in the South.
RileyMc,
You are proof that there is still intelligent life in California.
It is interesting to note that Southerners are the only available people group that you can make fun of in the media and entertainment these days.
I remeber when the new CBS TV series
The Magnificent Seven came out back in 1998. The bad guys were ex-Confederate soldiers. They were terrorizing some Indian village, killing innocent people with no remorse. The original Magnificent Seven, the movie, was about Mexican bandits terrorizing a small Mexican village. They decided that it would be politically incorrect to show Mexican villains, so they made the villains Southerners. Nevermind the fact that there was absolutely no record of any band of ex-Confederate soldiers heading West to bully poor Indian villages. U.S. Soldiers...uh...well...um...
In fact, ex-Confederate soldiers were known for arming the Indians.
But they had to pick a bad guy, didn't they, so it had to be Southerners. Nobody cares if they offend Southerners. Southerners are often portrayed by Hollywood as backward, toothless, fanatically religious, intollerant, bigotted, uneducated, unintelligent, loud mouthed, poor, rude, riotous, intemperate, stubborn and lazy. And you wonder why some Southerners feel they would be happier being separated?