Re akuperma’s first comment: There are so many spectacularly wrong bits of information in this comment that I will focus only on the first paragraph:
1. There is no evidence that the building of statues of Confederate soldiers was part of any reconciliation effort. The statues were generally erected by Southern state and local governments, in the period from the 1890’s to the 1940’s, and were intended to assert the white supremacy at the start of the Jim Crow era and the nascent civil rights movement of the 1930’s.
2. The Confederacy crushed itself by borrowing money from its citizens to fund the Civil War effort, and when the war was lost, the debt was worthless. Another major source of Southern wealth was its investment in slaves, and losing the war destroyed that value. As for the Ivy League, there was no formal Ivy League until the early 20th Century. Before that, it was just a phrase tossed about by the general public. For all I know, there might be a similar phrase that was or is used to refer to the outstanding Southern universities. But the growth of Southern universities was indeed severely impaired by the wealth lost by the Southern elite in the Civil War.
3. There are lots of well-recognized regional accents in the US, including the Archie Bunker New Yorker, the Hillary Clinton Midwesterner, and the David Brinkley/Douglas Kiker Southern broadcaster. These accents are spoken by the stupid and educated alike. Please do not hang your accent prejudices on the rest of us.