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

Growing up, we had a Yankee neighbor whose mother came down to visit, right after they built their house.

She saw black guys with croker sacks planting grass sprigs and went off on her daughter for using slaves to plant the yard. No shite.

Yankees are going to keep alive whatever negative stereotype about the South they can because it justifies them feeling better about themselves, kind of like how the white supremacist sees every car with spinners and a booming sound system as validation of his beliefs.