People outside the South seem to despise southern people and their values more than ever, and the south is no closer to sharing their values. Just speaking per

People outside the South seem to despise southern people and their values more than ever, and the south is no closer to sharing their values. Just speaking personally, this doesn't align with my experience. It might be the parts of the south I lived in. But the values of urban North Carolina and the values of urban Ohio seemed quite similar to me, and many people seemed to happily move back and forth between the Midwest and South without suffering any culture clash. Coastal California values do feel quite different from either of those, though, although I wouldn't say most Californians "despise" the red states.