Non-southerner. Unless you define undully critical as daring to be critical at all, no. Southerners give as good as they get, so I don’t see a problem.
It’s mutual derision between a certain group of people that are a small percentage of the posters. Which is typical of this board.
All in all, no. A few loud mouthed bigots are to be expected and the derision seems to be equally spread in all directions. Aside from the occasional dipshit, I don’t find it so pervasive as to be bothersome.
Southern.
Well, they’re unduly critical of Florida. 
Southern.
lower-Manhattan Yankee. Absolutely not.
I used to know a Southern gal (was ga-ga about her, in fact, and I loved and respected everything she did, said, felt, and thought) who would complain bitterly every time we disagreed about anything–the runniness of eggs, or the quality of a porno film–that I was imposing my elite, NYC, Ivy Tower, eastern establishment (etc.) on her and patronizing the shit out of her because I felt contemptuous of her poor benighted Southern perspective.
“No, darling, I’m just expressing contempt for your misinformed and stupid opinion–this is personal, not cultural–and my, you look spectacularly beautiful when you’re furious.”
“You are a condescending Yankee swine!”
“Please–Red Sox swine.”
Southerner here. Yes, sometimes a few chuckleheads use the word “south” to mean stupid or racist and everybody seems to think that’s OK. It gets old. Of course, I get it at work too so maybe I’m just becoming touchy about the subject.
Southerner here, 22 years in Georgia (that’d be my whole life). I don’t really think Dopers in general are unduly critical of the south, but I desperately want to get out of here so I may be biased.
This.
Southern to the bone
Yes, bless their hearts.
Cite:
Southern, and the answer is most definitely yes.
Forgive them Sampiro, for they know not of which they speak, and we really don’t want them hanging around long enough to learn.
I’m from Texas.
Muchly Southern.
Yes, but I have traveled pretty much everywhere and I find that pretty much everywhere does the same thing. There is a southern image thing that is hard to get around. That being said, it is only a group thing. No one seems to put it on an individual basis. I get, “you must be the exception”. I try to explain the idiots are the exception, and the idiots are certainly not more frequently found in the South than anywhere else. It just seems to be used as justification.
Yes, but I am too polite to say so.
Southern.
No. Northerner.
In my opinion, some Southerners feel it is disrespect when Northerners regard them as equals because they regard themselves as superior to Northerners.
Southerner.
Are Dopers as a group unduly critical. I say “no”, because there are few Dopers that are all that strident in denigrating the South. However, I must confess an intellectual disrespect for anyone (Doper or not) who truly believes that the default Southerner is the openly-racist, proud-to-be-stupid redneck. That, to me, is on par with thinking all Californians are surfers, or that all New Yorkers are in the Mafia.
Northern (well, Midwest by descent, now Californian).
I say: I certainly hope not, with all the great standout Southern Dopers we have here. Sampiro, AnArky, Sauron and his lovely consort Aries28.
Seriously now, I can’t really see any prejudice here, although maybe if I spent more time in GD, I would.
Sometimes the Southern stereotypes are played for laughs, and by Southerners themselves:
Yes, I have noticed some dopers being critical of the South on the basis not of reality, but of what they believe (or would like to believe) it to be. But there are so many Southerners on this board that they can defend themselves well enough.
Not Southern, not even American.
I was born and raised in TX. I spent the first 24 years of my life there. Just over a year ago I moved to NY.
Is there criticism? Yes. The dope is a critical place. We criticize EVERYTHING. That is just the way it is here. Is there an extreme amount of criticism towards the south? I don’t think so. I think the difference is that if you even mention the south in a thread people come pouring out of the woodwork with their best Foghorn Leghorn impressions to rip into you for even daring to mention their region of the country. There are plenty of religious people on this board who understand everyone is entitled to their opinion and don’t swoop into threads denouncing other people and their religious beliefs and attack the people there for their opinions. Of course, there are nutjobs (who shall remain nameless despite their obvious nutjobbery) who push religion in every thread they comment in no matter what the topic, so it goes both ways.
I have encountered plenty of prejudice here in the north from people who think I must be one step above functionally retarded because of the fact that I am from TX. I have also seen Texans rip into northerners for no apparent reason (I can’t count the number of cars I saw in TX with the bumper sticker “Help clean up the south - put a yankee on a bus”) simply because they feel like the south is superior in some intangible way.
The fact of the matter is that the south and the north are different, no region is better or worse, just different. I miss being able to get chicken fried steak whenever I want it and when I am visiting family down south I miss being able to take the subway anywhere I want to go. Each place has good things and bad things about it and though NYC suits me down to the ground I do understand the love people have of the south, I just don’t share that passion. I wish everyone could just calm down a bit and realize that not every negative thing that is said is a personal insult towards them.
Southerner, from SC.
What’s surprised me is when people ask for specific advice, like, “Should I move to South Carolina?” and then some incredibly nasty things get said, not just about the state but about the people in it, as if the posters didn’t know that some of us do read and might read that! There was one once that wasn’t even “In my opinion” or “Among the people I worked with”, just “South Carolina people are the dumbest, most ignorant, racist bumpkins I’ve ever seen.” That’s what I find rude. I mean, I’m standing right here!