The south had traditions long before the Renaissance fairgoers took it over after I left for the senate. Bourbon Friday's, mint julep Wednesday's, the governors plantation. The region birthed the RPP from its womb and brought attention to regional issues. People act like it was in such bad shape before the kilt wearers took it over and named it after the Knights of the Roundtable, but it was already colorful.
And it's a poor argument to make that the name attracts people given the current state of affairs. It sounds like a perfect place if you're into slaying dragons. Not if you want to be in the south. If anything, the imperial dominion stripped the region of its heritage and made it a niche region for dungeons and dragons players.
The problem is that some people litterally are offended by Southern heritage. I have met both at school and work people who are litteraly ashamed of the real life region's cultural traditions and heritage. I also remember your loving of such being labeled as racist by the JCP at the time in both subtle and not so subtle ways. This is one change in the south that gets unnoticed, but I run into people all time who litterally cringe at their neighbors' with their trucks and their guns and their duck dynasty type lifestyles.
Either option has drawbacks. But on an internet site, an appeal to dragon slaying is probably less counterproductive then an appeal to cotton fields and plantations.