More goods/bads about the South as a region:
Positives:
Diversity
Fried Chicken
Livermush (OK, I confess, I didn’t call that out. But I should)
Politeness
Plenty of land and opportunity to learn from others’ mistakes
Friendliness
Negatives:
Racial attitudes impede progress.
“Race” is still black and white, ignoring other ethnicities.
Xenophobia
Retributive justice is expensive (we put a lot of people in jail)
Unusual resistance to change
Poor reputation, and we live up to it sometimes
Sahara of the Bozart
Patronizing attitude toward woman
Kudzu (OK, I added that one myself, too)