re: Do you think current-day Cotton farms in the south are frowned upon?

Northerners (not all of course). The reason I ask is we had some family friends in town over the holidays that went touring around to plantations etc. They rode by some active cotton farms by chance and made some strange comments like the south can never change its ways (or something similarly ignorant). So Ive been wondering if a lot of the nation would view it that way.... (I agree who gives a shite what they think, this is just a question)