I'm born and raised in the South and can sympathize with how you feel about the prejudices and bigotry that still remains. However, if you think that that's all the being Southern amounts to, then you're missing a lot of the great things about your heritage. There's more to it than that. To that end, if people, once they find you are from the South, demonize you or judge you based on a blanket belief that all Southerners feel the same way about everything, then that person isn't worth your time.