Oh bullshit. People are people, the same in the south as anywhere else. Hatred and laziness and racism are just as strong in the mid-west and north central as in the south. The poverty levels in the rust belt and former mining & agricultural states are the same or worse than the deep south. The redneck isolationist attitudes in the mountain states is just as strong as in Texas or Alabama.
The difference is that the south actually has black folks, not just the fear of black folks.