There are several members herein that live in the South and can better address that subject than I can. I don't see even the most remote grievance you speak of and don't take much stock in listening to someone with a flag in his pick-up that can't even tell me why, yet alone the fact that the very same individual probably did not study history nor can tell me much about our history.
I'm no expert on America, but where does the antagonism against the Federal Government come from? Isn't it a throwback to the failure of Reconstruction and the overbearing presence of the Federal Government? Isn't the cry for States Rights a throwback to Jefferson Davis?

It is benign, but I think it is still there.