I'd rather be in Charleston, Nashville, Savannah, Raleigh, Fayetteville, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Ashville, or Greenville off the top of my head, there are probably more. Huntsville, AL, is supposed to be great, but I haven't been there. If Texas counts the list grows longer. I'd even rather live in New Orleans, but I wouldn't want to live there either.
The fact that you mentioned rap music and named a liberal city as the "unofficial Capitol of the South" tells me that are priorities are probably pretty different.