Yeah, me neither.
You love California ... enough said ;-) Philias and phobias are irrational. Cavebear's ancestors (he says) were Yankee extremists. He claims he didn't inherit that, but the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. For MikeCL etc, who have lived in the South, and hated it ... they came by their antipathy honestly. It wasn't from watching CBS.
I have lived on the margins of the South, so I don't have a lot to say about it, other than irrationality simply promotes bigotry. I have lived in California. It is fruits and nuts. But I don't hate the people there. Anglos, Hispanics, Asians, Blacks are all fine to me. Including immigrants. But it is a crazy state, because of the political policies there, and the over-population. The big population states seem to be car wrecks to me.