Even for someone popular like Mr. Greek from the other, slightly less refined Carolina. 
You must be mistaken. I am from the most refined city in the Carolinas and that makes its state more refined as a whole.
That, or you're forgetting I am from South Carolina....
Oh, Charleston is in a league of its own.
But it's hard not to have a much different view of the state from the stories my step-dad tells me (he lived in rural central South Carolina for 6 years).
His ex-mother-in-law, a proper "well trailered" drunk asked him to help her remove a tooth by getting smashed on cheap whiskey and then tying the tooth with a string to a door.
It was a shocking experience for him, having grown up in an upper middle class home in suburban San Francisco (whose dad worked in Silicon Valley). And it undoubtedly gave him a sour view of the state.
