People from the South

In an earlier post, I wrote that I was thankful to my mom for teaching me not to "engage in any kind of regional negativity". This is actually more abstract than what she taught me. Her specific point was not to think or say things that would hurt the feelings of people from the South. For some reason, when I was writing that post, I abstracted it in my mind to a broader principle, perhaps because things don't seem valid unless they are an application of a universal idea. But abstracting it and generalizing it could make it sound unclear, possibly judgy, like I was condemning expressions of regional pride or something, which I was not. I hope there aren't any misunderstandings.