Without the conservative South, the USA would already be a socialist country, on the verge of communism. The Soviet Union would still exist and the world would be a more f-ed up place than it already is. Why do yo think the MSM, liberals, socialists, Democrats and South haters all over the USA (like you) want the South's heritage erased or better yet rewritten to conform with some liberal fantasies?
Some of us think that the USA is already a socialist country in too many respects.
I don't think the Soviet Union would still exist under any circumstances. Maybe we just disagree about communism, but I don't think it works. It is just fundamentally a doomed system. Nobody wants to live like that and it's getting harder to hide what's happening in the rest of the world from your people. I guess there are still a couple of exceptions, like North Korea, but the prospects aren't good for communism.
I don't think I've ever met any "South haters" out here in the West. Are you running into any "West haters" out your way? I really don't think that most people think of other sections of the country in those terms (except everybody hates to be in Newark or Flint, Michigan).
You know, I've had to travel quite a bit and about 20 years ago (maybe sometime in the nineties), I began to notice how similar different areas of the country began to seem. The hotels all started to look the same and the people all started to sound the same. And, now, even the food is pretty much the same. You can get anything you want now anywhere you go.
I'm not sure it's better, but it's easier.