That really isn't the case in the south. You can say what you want about southern culture, it does sadly tend to revel in being ignorant like black culture does. I think that's on purpose and probably wasn't always the case, if Rap was a psyop to make niggers act dumber and more violent then lord knows.

The Midwest feels like "Southern Culture Lite" and there is a clear distinction between Italian Americans and Italians in Italy. Same with the Irish and Russians. But whatever off-shoot Anglo culture the Germanics had at one point just isn't there anymore.