It's the same general perception on the West Coast. Most everyone I've talked to thinks accents are cool, albeit sometimes hard to understand in the case of heavy Southern and Texan ones. As for derogatory terms, they hardly exist here. Oregon is still an almost homogenous culture. The rest are whites of some type.
People live wherever they want.
Most all the kids grew up here, so they're just Denny, James, or Jennifer, not the birthplaces of their grandparents. People just kind of agree that it's immaterial. I wandered a bit there, but part of my point is that those terms are common, but not derogatory. People regularly use them of themselves, in fact. It has no bad connotation.