Every form of government does. However, the speculation on trying to define a Southerner can stop. His or her characteristic is that he or she has had to live under it as how it happened to impact them where they happened to be. Not everything that has happened is bad. Jazz, blues, Cajun cooking, and other things are to be valued.
Lets hold on to what is good and go forward.
The Confederacy is the great prison house of the Former Major Slave States. It prevents them from finding a future suitable for all their inhabitants. The Confederacy needs to become merely the past, the Semi-Autonomous Confederate Region needs to be abolished, the Solid South, whether Democratic or Republican needs also be abolished. The Former Major Slave States need to be allowed to become themselves. We need to become Post-Southern.