This was said a long time ago, but may still apply to the south, and especially South Carolina:
Not all South Carolinians supported secession. About 57 percent of the state’s 703,000 residents in 1860 were slaves. A few white opponents spoke out, including lawyer and politician James Petigru, whose famous quote still echoes through his home state today: “South Carolina is too small to be a Republic, and too large to be an insane asylum.”
It is sad that in 150 years since the civil war much of the south has refused to move on from it.