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When compared to the rest of the United States, the South is usually seen as socially conservative, religious/fundamentalist, racially divided, poor/agrarian, and overall "backwards." As I understand, many of these features have been around for centuries - by the time of Independence, it was the most agarian part of the Colonies and the heartland of slavery, and Evangelical Protestantism has been extant since the Second Great Awakening (though, IIRC, the intersection of fundamental Christianity and politics wasn't mainstream until the 60s/70s, and many other regions, such as New England, have been equally associated with religiosity and social conservatism until the last century or so).

However, with a POD after 1789, how many Southern cultural/political stereotypes can you change or reverse?
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