Am I allowed to say I get really tired of South bashing?

[Bluenorthwest]

73. I've done business with all 50 States and many nations. Most polite, New Orleans by far.

Most surly? Boston, by a mile. On the other hand, if I had to live in one place or the other I'd have to pick Boston, cold and mean as it is, because the law there treats me to equal protections in housing and employment and marriage. So there is polite and surly but there is also equal and unequal.
If the South changed a few laws about LGBT people and medical marijuana, I would live there right now. My income is portable, where I reside I pay taxes but take no job, school no children. The weather, too sticky but I hate the cold. In the South I could own a far grander home, have more money to spend and depending on the State, be near people I love.
So please, do not confuse those of us who seek to have access to the entire country by advocating changes to laws in red States as 'bashing' those States. It is, after all and in fact, those States that bash LGBT people. Not all of the 29 States that refuse protections to LGBT in employment and housing are in the South, but every Southern State is among those 29 and there is no other region of the country that is entirely without such civil rights protections.
To say 'stop mistreating my people' is not bashing your State. It is defending myself and my own.

I grew up in CA, my cousins from the South called us the 'land of fruits, flakes and nuts'. West bashing, with homophobia sauce. Our Governor they called 'Moonbeam', ruler of the People's Republic of California. On DU, two different people who identified as Southern have told me that my State is not 'the real America, only the South is the real Plantation America' or that here I am not 'surrounded by real Americans'. That's pretty strong stuff coming from the South toward the West.

It is just not a one way street, and some criticism of various States and regions might actually be valid.