Jack Neely on why Southerners don't like Obama. It's not race, he says, and I agree with him.

And I suspect many Americans, and especially Southerners, resent him for this reason: If you survey the men we’ve elected to the presidency over the last 150 years, those elected to office tend to be people with either several years experience legislating in U.S. Congress, or major administrative experience as governor of a state. The only exceptions we’ve made are men with a record of supreme military leadership....
In terms of these traditional qualifications for the presidency, when he was inaugurated last year, Obama was arguably the least experienced commander in chief since maybe Chester A. Arthur, who was never actually elected president. That fact has probably hurt him in practical ways. He hasn’t learned how to slap backs like Bill Clinton or LBJ, whose liberal changes were more sweeping than Obama’s. And few in Washington owe him any favors.
A final prejudice may be personal. No Democratic president in history has ever had the leisure to so fully ignore the Southern vote and still get elected. That’s hard to get over.

See also this link via Instapundit on the Gentry vs. Populist conflict within the Democratic Party.

When you probe into political and social conflict, you quickly find yourself mulling deep kinds of prejudices, not the modern racial kind, but older geographic and ethnic rivalries that go back hundred of years. Even if the don't make sense, they are still real.