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I think it is the South that gets it the most both on City-Data and in real life by the urban density crowd and the occassional liberal. Believe it or not, I actually think it is worse here on City-Data.
I say this because in real life most people I know here in New York do not (despite the sterotypes) spend their days knocking other parts of the country the way that people claim we do. The exception maybe is Florida, where most New Yorkers have an opinion on and a love-hate realtionship with.
Other parts of the country get it (here on CD the Midwest and the Northeast), and some people seem to have a vendetta against certain cities; Chicago, NYC, LA, Houston, Atlanta, Dallas, Philadelphia etc.
Okay, I think New Orleans is cool. But come on, what's a slam-dunk AWESOME southern city. You know, a city that someone visiting from half-way around the world has GOT to see.
Orlando. People visit it REGULARLY. And I already know what you're about to say.
Unfortunately (outside of CD) people from the Midwest probably bash their own region more than any other and have a grass is always greener on the other side mentality. For many the South is actually the promised land because of the warmer weather. Honestly it is the people from the Midwest who tell others when they travel that it is flat, cold, declining, boring, etc... The people I know who have lived in Midwestern cities who come from other regions of the country normally say it actually is not that different from living in any other region of the country. What one person calls boring another calls relaxing.
Although not the most bashed, the Southwest gets regular negative responses. Often hear; "there's nothing there" or that the cities "shouldn't exist" or are dirty, which i think has to do with there being more brown in the landscape.
Mostly the SW is overlooked like how it's not mentioned in this thread's poll. The West doesn't cut it as one region if you live west of the Plains. There's the Northwest, Southwest, California, and the Mountain West, all a lot different from each other.
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