I’d say no, but then I haven’t read those threads. (Well, I think I participated briefly in one a while ago but fairly quickly wandered off.) And I also really dislike the flying of the Confederate flag, so even if I had participated, it might appear that I had some anti-Southern animus when actually I have an animus against that one single thing.
I’m from Montana but I live in the South.
Not even american
As soon as any negative thing is mentioned about the south, the southerners descend in packs and drag the thread to the crapper, a similar level of remark about some other region would pass without comment. There may be some bias, but it’s far outweighed by the overpowering vehemence of the southern response. As a complete outsider in the battle I find it rather strange, has wrecked more than a few interesting threads for me.
Unduly critical? I have to come down on the no side. Critical, yes, Unduly, not really.
It’s not that we honestly believe y’all are ALL racist backwoods redneck assholes, it’s just that the racist backwoods redneck assholes are a whole lot more visible than the sane southerners.
Rather like not all Christians are halfway to loving old Phred, and not all muslims are terrorists. Only the loudmouths tend to be, and the apologists and wafflers aren’t helping refute our opinions.
If more apologists would shut up about losing the Civil War, not flinch or, worse, babble “I’m not a racist, but . . .” when confronted with a “black issue” (especially when that “issue” is a real live person being an unreasonable PITA employee), understand that “Damn Yankee” is an insult, stop shrieking that the North is worse in every way . . . Try to accept that you’re part of the same nation as the North and PNW and Rocky Mtns and Desert SW and even Texas, and we’ll (eventually) stop shoving the South off into the racist backwoods redneck asshole junk-drawer.
Short version: you (plural you, not you specifically) stop worshipping the mythic South, and we will stop condemning the actual South.
I’m not a southerner. I am not a yankee. I am a hick, I am sympathetic to many southern traditions, I am related to sane native southerners, I have lived in the south, but I am not From The South.
No, they are duly critical of the South.
Border stater all my life (Maryland, then Missouri), wife raised in the South (Louisiana), relatives on both sides in the South (Arkansas).
No.
Southron. Yep.
Non-southerner, though the bulk of my maternal relatives are Virginians/Marylanders and I have older roots on that side in Mississippi.
Equivocal. Or more precisely, sometimes yes ( usually in a dumbass way ), sometimes no ( negative perceptions triggered more by defensiveness, than actual offense ).
Born and raised in a Border State deep in Appallachia, I now consider myself a fully assimilated and urbanized Northern Californian.
Yes, I think the Dope tends to be unduly harsh and mocking toward Southerners and Southern culture; then again, so does much of mainstream America.
Raised Texan. (The PNW mold got me, but I’ll gladly take ya up on that pool invite. 
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It’s entirely possible.
It kind of depends upon the thread in question …
I remember when I posted a thread in a particular forum, and the responses I got were … surprising. And not so nice. I think that had to do with the Southern-ness of what I was discussing.
Mostly I just ignore it, if I can - just like anything else around here.
Oh, I’m in Mississippi.
Eh. You’re all Yanks (including the Canadians). 
This is so very true
Southerner here. Sometimes, but not nearly as much as some people pretend (I think a fair amount of the criticism is not only due, but past due)
I grew up as a mountain man in a small town (200 kids in my K-8 school.) As such, I can’t say that I feel any particular need to give the South a pass on things like trying to get Intelligent Design passed, or a guy from Texas exclaiming over and over, “Queso isn’t just cheese!” We were taught to be critical thinkers and private about things that aren’t other people’s business. So rural living isn’t an excuse.
I don’t think anyone thinks that there aren’t lots of perfectly intelligent people in the South, but it’s not unduly critical to note that most of the things that make one go :smack: are originated by the South or people from the South.
And having lots of friends who are Europeans, the only defense I can often find for the things they bring up as stupidities of the US are again, usually Southern US based. Which isn’t terribly fair of them, as they tend to exclude Latvia or Turkey or wherever when they discuss all the wonderful things in Europe. Europe has the East. We have the South. But everyone includes the South when they think of the US, while as they don’t include the East when they think of Europe.
There are a limited number of loud dopers who disdain the South or consider it the natural home of stupidity or malice. I do not believe that that is a general feeling.
There are also a limited number of Southerners who take exorbitant pains to either denigrate the North or to crow over some perceived “superiority” of the South over the North. I do not believe that that is a general feeling, either.
I grew up in Michigan before I moved South to Ohio.
No. If anything, people give the South too much of a pass.
Background: Born in Union territory but raised in Texas from the age of 5 and spent 24 years there. Father was a Yankee, but mother was a Southerner.
So, I consider myself from the South. No, I don’t think the South is dumped on any more than is deserved here. Texas in particular seems to be treated with kid gloves.
Native Texan, now in Florida. Yes.
Yes. I think there is a large tendence to use “southerners” as if the word was an exact equivalent to “inbred, racist, redneck white trash,” rather than as meaning “someone from a given geographical area.” A lot of times I see references to “the South” that sound like whomever is talking about the (defunct, as you may know) Confederated States, rather than, again, about a geographical area.
Not a Southerner. I’ve lived in Florida, but it was in Miami, which is much more Latina than Southerner.
I was referring to the 3 or 4 people *in this thread *who allegedly had hurt feelings. Read the post I responded to.