I'd say Georgia is the same. The backwardness of our sister states of Alabama and Mississippi might be due to a relative dearth of such an influx of non-Southerners. Too much homogeneity in a population is a weakness in a number of ways.

Those Deep South states have a catch-22 going on. Nobody wants to live there because they’re so backward, but they won’t progress unless people without the southern chip on shoulder move there.