South brought us slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, apartheid, fundamentalist theocracy, 3rd world class structure, and public taxpayer funding for religious institutions (They call it faith based programs & school vouchers these days).
And as was pointed out above the South leads the nation in illiteracy, malnutrition, domestic violence & murder, divorce, teen pregnancy, and per capita property & violent crime. America's underachieving hillbilly cousin; The one that shows up to every family reunion b*tching about their 'victim status' and demanding hand-outs from his relatives that listened to mom-- Stayed in school, and got jobs...the ones he calls 'yuppy scum' when they're out of earshot.

The "Bible Belt" is a perfect example of what The Republican Party wishes America to become: A Third World of privileged masters ruling a mass of uneducated share-cropping serfs set against themselves for arbitrary invented reasons, in America's case, family background & heritage, happy for a few scraps of cast-offs.

Haggis, anyone?