I’m a transplanted Yankee city boy who spent the best years of his life in the Deep South, and you’re right about those pinheads up North who hate anything about the South, its people and its culture - but they’re not the majority, and they’re mostly jackoffs who despise anybody and anything that doesn’t align with their radical lefty agenda.
Or else they had dealings with the “the South was Right!” crew and got really tired of their eternal, repetitive BS ...
It is no coincidence that no popular media depicts anyone with a Southern accent as anything other than a despicable degenerate. For twerps in NYC who rail against stereotypes, this is their only picture of the Southern Man.