I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.
Don't get involved in partial problems but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem even if this view is still not a clear one.